Sentences with phrase «surround giant planets»

While they are theoretically predicted to surround giant planets at birth, there has been little observational evidence to date for circumplanetary disks outside the solar system.

While such circumplanetary disks have been theorized to surround giant planets at birth and to control the flow of gas onto the growing planet, these findings are the first observational evidence for their existence.

The Oort cloud consists of objects ejected from the region surrounding the giant planets during and after their formation.

Not exact matches

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

Our analysis strongly suggests we are observing a disk of hot gas that surrounds a forming giant planet in orbit around the star.

«This result is unique because it demonstrates that a giant planet can form so rapidly that the remnant gas and dust from which the young star formed, surrounding the system in a Frisbee - like disk, is still present,» said Lisa Prato of Lowell Observatory, co-leader of the young planet survey and a co-author on the paper.

The inner parts of the planet - spawning disks of gas and dust surrounding new - born stars are not believed to contain enough mass to form giant planets.

In Earth's magnetosphere — the giant magnetic bubble surrounding our planet — these magnetic reconnections can fling charged particles toward Earth, triggering auroras.

Much like the ancient holiday of Saturnalia, when Roman masters swapped roles with servants, the recent buzz surrounding Saturn has mainly focused not on the giant planet but on its satellites.

These STEREO observations provide the first direct measurements of the inner boundary of the heliosphere — the giant bubble sparsely filled with solar particles that surrounds the sun and all the planets.

In the prevailing theory of planet formation, called core accretion, dust grains stick together to form rocky worlds, and some of these rocky bodies then grow massive enough to attract surrounding gas, becoming gas giants like Jupiter.

We present and exploit new near - infrared images and integral - field spectra of the four gas giants surrounding HR8799 obtained with SPHERE, the new planet finder instrument at the Very Large Telescope, during the commissioning and science verification phase of the instrument (July - December 2014).

We present and exploit new near - infrared images and integral - field spectra of the four gas giants surrounding HR8799 obtained with SPHERE, the new planet f... ▽ More The planetary system discovered around the young A-type HR8799 provides a unique laboratory to: a) test planet formation theories, b) probe the diversity of system architectures at these separations, and c) perform comparative (exo) planetology.

Kuiper Belt Objects appear to be primitive bodies that are remnants of the early stages of solar system formation, when the giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) were accreting surrounding gas, dust, and ices.