Sentence examples for much less massive from inspiring English sources

Earth and the other planets of the inner solar system, however, are much less massive, and most have hotter upper atmospheres.

Beta rays are much less massive negatively charged particles; they were shown to be the same as the electrons discovered by J.J. Thomson in cathode rays in 1897.

The planets are much less massive than the Sun, but if they grew large enough and if the gases around them were cool enough, they could accumulate an atmosphere from the volatile components of the gas cloud.

This result implies that stars more massive than the Sun, which were formed very early in the life history of the Galaxy, could have produced some of the heavy elements that are seen today but that stars much less massive than the Sun could have played no part in this production.

Thomson's most important line of work, interrupted only for lectures at Princeton University in 1896, was that which led him in 1897 to the conclusion that all matter, whatever its source, contains particles of the same kind that are much less massive than the atoms of which they form a part.

He added that M dwarves, which are among the most abundant stars in our galaxy, are relatively easy places to look for exoplanets: because they're so much less massive than stars like the sun, their Doppler wobble is larger and more detectable.

But dwarf galaxies, which are much smaller and less massive, don't fit this picture.

The rate of oxygen ionization on the microdeposits has been much less than on massive platinum due to almost complete conversion of the microdeposits into PtO.

The other good news is that innovation can be much less expensive than massive aid projects.

Much less convincing are the massive metallic blobs and lumps that share the top-floor gallery with the cake.

The classical Cepheids have periods from about 1.5 days to more than 50 days and belong to the class of relatively young stars found largely in the spiral arms of galaxies and called Population I. Population II Cepheids are much older, less luminous, and less massive than their Population I counterparts.