Sentence examples for although less massive from inspiring English sources

Although less massive than Jupiter, the planet is bloated to a greater size because its proximity to its host star heats it, a common effect in such closely orbiting gas giants.

This is possibly the longest living species of lizards, although it is considerably less massive and heavy than the Komodo dragon.

These results suggest that dry and mostly minor merging - and not just gas dissipation - can have a significant impact on the structure of elliptical galaxies, although dissipation may dominate for less massive ellipticals.

Several globular clusters (like M15) have extremely massive cores which may harbor black holes, although simulations suggest that a less massive black hole or central concentration of neutron stars or massive white dwarfs explain observations equally well.

Mars: Although further from the sun, is less massive than Earth or Venus, and so retains principally only the heavy gas, carbon dioxide.

Although ellipticals are bigger than red compacts, they are usually less massive.

Antarctic pressure ridges are less massive than Arctic pressure ridges.

The stars formed can either be more or less massive than the Sun, though less massive stars are more numerous.

Ms. Van Ouwerkerk said that less massive models had proved less successful.

It takes longer for less massive stars and a much shorter time for those much more massive.

The descending phase is modelled such that AGN in more massive haloes shut down faster than in less massive ones.