Sentences with phrase «young giant planet»

The answer, according to theorists, is planetary migration: dramatic orbital changes due to the gravitational interaction of the young giant planet with the remains of the disk, or mutual interactions between planets.

Although scientists suspect that the extended atmospheres of young giant planets can capture passing bodies, «the origin of these moons is still a mystery,» says Luu, who was not a member of the discovery team, «But [the large number of moons] is an important clue that tells us the process must have been very efficient,» says Luu.

Not exact matches

«Astronomers find giant planet around very young star: Jupiter - like «CI Tau b» orbits 2 million - year - old star in constellation Taurus.»

«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.

Infrared images from the Keck and Gemini telescopes reveal three giant planets orbiting counterclockwise around a young star, in a scaled - up version of our solar system.

One controversial theory posits that giant planets might not need rocky cores if they form directly from unstable whorls of gas in the nebula around a young star.

This finding could offer new insights into the timeline for giant planet formation around young stars.

If certain debris disks are able to hold onto appreciable amounts of gas, it might push back astronomers» expected deadline for giant planet formation around young stars, the astronomers speculate.

The discovery of a very young hot Jupiter thus confirms that early migration within the disk also applies to giant planets.

Rieke's plans for JWST investigations include imaging nearby debris disks deeply enough to detect young ice giant planets to understand how they sculpt debris disks, and obtaining multiple epoch infrared spectra of variable disks.

[1] Earlier examples of ALMA research have been described in press releases such as «ALMA Sheds Light on Planet - Forming Gas Streams — Tantalizing signs of flows feeding gas - guzzling giant planets,» «Sweet Result from ALMA — Building blocks of life found around young star.»

The Extremely Red, Young L Dwarf PSO J318 - 22: A Free - Floating Planetary - Mass Analog to Directly Imaged Young Gas - Giant Planets

We used NaCo at VLT to explore t... ▽ More In anticipation of the VLT / SPHERE planet imager guaranteed time programs, we have conducted a preparatory survey of 86 stars between 2009 and 2013 in order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type stars.

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.

Astronomers using radio telescopes in New Mexico and California have discovered a giant, rotating disk of material around a young, massive star, indicating that very massive stars as well as those closer to the size of the Sun may be circled by disks from which planets are thought to form.

Mounted on the 8 - meter Gemini South Telescope in Chile, the Imager began searching for giant planets circling 600 young stars in November 2014.

We performed a pilot study with the extreme - AO system on the Spectro - Polarimetric High - contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) on the Very Large Telescopes (VLT) to look for giant planets around a young white dwarf, GD 50.

Such planets are much harder to see than young gas giants because of their much smaller sizes.

This artist's impression shows the formation of a gas giant planet around a young star.

We know that planets form within protoplanetary disks that orbit young stars, and gas giants need to be fully formed within 3 - 10 million years of the formation of their parent star as the gaseous nebula dissipates past this point.

In 2014, the GPI team will begin a large - scale survey, looking at 600 young stars to see what giant planets orbit them.

They're all present and laying it on with a trowel, including Rufus Sewell (star of «Dark City») as the architect Urshu — who has the snitty defiance of a young Tony Curtis — and Geoffrey Rush as Set and Horus» grandfather, the sun god Ra, who lives on an orbital platform in space, and spends eternity using his sun - bolt lance to zap a giant black leviathan - worm that wants to eat its way through the planet.

In order to hack into, what else, a giant battleship, the two young recruits are first dispatched to a nearby planet with a lavish casino run by rich arms dealers — who, it turns out, profit from supplying weapons to both sides of the galaxy's seemingly eternal good - versus - evil conflict.

Remastered by Abbey Games composer Joni van der Leeuw, the album is comprised of 25 tracks which tell the story of a young planet where civilization and nature evolve, conflicts develop, and giants control the stream of history.