Sentence examples for type of planet from inspiring English sources

"The most common type of planet in the universe is one we don't know anything about, because we don't have it in our solar system," Brown said.

Data from the Kepler Space Telescope suggests that ice giants might be the most common type of planet in the galaxy.

The distance to the star and the type of planet are the first, basic criteria [for a potentially habitable planet], then there are interesting questions that need to be answered before we know if that planet could be considered habitable.

The zone changes with the type of planet and type of star; a larger, brighter star, for instance, has a wider habitable zone and a drier, rockier planet may only be habitable at the inner edge of the zone.

By studying a uniform sample of Kepler "multis" with mass measurements from transit timing variations (TTVs), I showed that a given planetary system tends to harbor a characteristic type of planet (Millholland et al. 2017).

This could lead to a boom in the discovery of young planets.The news, though, is not so good in terms of finding planets that are more like Earth and not the size of Jupiter (a type of planet that is unlikely to sustain life).

Trump, ironically, may actually be on track to initiate the world's first large-scale atmospheric spraying program – the type of planet-hacking that Tammi fears is already under way.

The two warm Saturns enormous—"are exactly the type of planets" to have satellites, he says.

Astronomers are calling these new types of planet Super-Earths, and so far they have found more than 30 of them.

The distinction between different types of planet has already been broadened so that the solar system is now thought to contain three, rather than two, types.

One of the main challenges they have faced is to come up with a theory that explains the formation of two entirely different types of planet, but no hybrids that share characteristics of both.