Astronomers have found a giant planet orbiting so close to its parent star that it「s bound to spiral inward to its doom or else be ripped to shreds by the star」s gravity.
But Saturn「s fellow gas giant planet Jupiter has four big moons.
而和土星同样是巨大气质行星的木星却有4颗大卫星。
Tyche is the nickname given to a hypothesized gas giant planet located in the Solar System」s Oort cloud.
幸神星是太阳系奥尔特云内的一颗假设的气态巨行星的昵称。
Scientists said they have found evidence of a giant planet far out in our solar system.
科学家表示他们发现了太阳系存在另一大行星的证据。
Computer simulations show that if there is more than one giant planet in a solar system「s family, they will perform a kind of gravitational arm-wrestling match, making their orbits unstable.
But this year it is enlivened by a visit from the giant planet Jupiter, right on the border between Pisces and Aquarius.
但是今年却因巨大的行星—木星刚好从双鱼座和水瓶座之间经过而充满生气。
As one example, a gas giant planet called HD 209458b has been found to contain oxygen, carbon and water.
举个例子,人们发现一颗被称为HD 209458b的巨大的气体行星含有氧、碳和水。
It」s a gas giant planet also called Osiris, and it「s orbiting so close to its star that some of its atmosphere gets blown away by the stellar wind.
它是颗气态大行星,也叫「欧西·里斯」星。它的运行轨迹过于接近其恒星,致使它的部分大气层被恒星吹起。
There is an unconfirmed detection of another planet in the epsilon Eri system, also a giant planet (although less massive at 0.1 Jupiter masses) in a very distant (40 AU) orbit.
Technically, Neptune」s existence was mathematically predicted years earlier, based on the gravitational effect the ice giant planet was having on neighboring Uranus.