Sentence examples for gas planet from inspiring English sources

Another interesting impact within the solar system occurred at the giant gas planet Jupiter.

Between July 16 and 22, 1994, 21 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the giant gas planet Jupiter.

Two years later, Wagg got a call confirming his discovery was a new gas planet similar to Jupiter, 1,000 light years from Earth.

Two years later, the 17-year-old got the call confirming his discovery was indeed a new planet – a large gas planet with similar properties to Jupiter in the southern constellation of Hydra.

On Earth, life exists in water and on land but, on a giant gas planet, for example, it might exist high in the atmosphere, trapping nutrients from the air swirling around it.

This gas planet might then get kicked into its star's habitable zone, perhaps by gravitational tussles with other infant planets.

The abundant, volatile lighter elements could condense only at much greater distances to form the giant gas planets.

The first were huge gas planets — composed mostly of hydrogen, similar to Jupiter — that orbited extremely close to their stars.

The Kepler team also observed, more definitively, two giant, Saturn-size gas planets around the same star, known as Kepler-9.

Big gas planets can have their atmospheres boiled away by their stars, transforming them into rocky planets that could even be oases for life.

The rock-ice cores that emerge can then pull in large amounts of hydrogen and helium gas, forming gas planets like those in our outer solar system.