giant planet

This might suggest a giant planet, at least the size of Jupiter and maybe up to four times as big.

Jupiter is a gas giant planet, mainly composed of hydrogen and helium, the sun's average distance of 7. 7 billion kilometers.

Tyche is the nickname given to a hypothesized gas giant planet located in the Solar System's Oort cloud.

As Ganymede passes behind the giant planet, it reflects sunlight which then passes through Jupiter's atmosphere.

Indeed, our galaxy is so huge that dozens of lesser galaxies scamper about it, like moons orbiting a giant planet.

But this year it is enlivened by a visit from the giant planet Jupiter, right on the border between Pisces and Aquarius.

The moons themselves were young, formed about 100 million years earlier when a giant planet smashed into Earth.

Pandora, despite being almost as big as Earth, is technically a moon of the giant planet.

Giant planet GJ 436b in the constellation Leo is missing something--and that something is swamp gas.

Saturn is second only to the nine planets of Jupiter's another giant planet.

Games ago for the very distant background of the times, all kinds of biological control of the giant planet.

But Saturn's fellow gas giant planet Jupiter has four big moons.

At its closest approach, the giant planet will swing closer and shine brighter than at any time between 1963 and 2022.

As one example, a gas giant planet called HD 209458b has been found to contain oxygen, carbon and water.

This image of Saturn was made in November 1980 by the Voyager1 spacecraft as it flew past the ringed gas giant planet.

show that Rhea, the second biggest moon of the giant planet, has an atmosphere that is 70 per cent oxygen and 30 per cent carbon dioxide.

Hot on the heels of last year's asteroid impact on Jupiter, the gas giant planet has been smacked once again.

Researchers say the giant planet, named BD 20 1790b, is 35 million years old and six times the mass of Jupiter.