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60 relations: Abundance of the chemical elements, Academic Press, Ammonia, Atmosphere of Jupiter, B-type main-sequence star, Brown dwarf, Carbon, Chthonian planet, Critical point (thermodynamics), Deuterium, Exoplanet, Exoplanet Data Explorer, Exoplanetology, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, Gas, Gas giant, Great Red Spot, Helium, Hot Jupiter, Hot Neptune, Hydrogen, Ice giant, International Astronomical Union, James Blish, Jupiter, Jupiter (mythology), Jupiter mass, List of Transformers planets, Mars, Metallic hydrogen, Methane, Methods of detecting exoplanets, Neptune, Nice model, Nuclear fusion, O-type main-sequence star, Optical depth, Oxygen, PDF, Phase (matter), Photoevaporation, Physics Today, Planet, Planetary system, Protoplanetary disk, Rock (geology), Saturn, Science (TV network), Silicon, Solar System, ..., Solid, Star, Stellar wind, Sudarsky's gas giant classification, Sun, Terrestrial planet, Tyche (hypothetical planet), Ultraviolet, Uranus, Water. Expand index (10 more) »
Abundance of the chemical elements
The abundance of the chemical elements is a measure of the occurrence of the chemical elements relative to all other elements in a given environment.
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Academic Press
Academic Press is an academic book publisher.
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Ammonia
Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.
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Atmosphere of Jupiter
The atmosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System.
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B-type main-sequence star
A B-type main-sequence star (B V) is a main-sequence (hydrogen-burning) star of spectral type B and luminosity class V. These stars have from 2 to 16 times the mass of the Sun and surface temperatures between 10,000 and 30,000 K. B-type stars are extremely luminous and blue.
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Brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that occupy the mass range between the heaviest gas giant planets and the lightest stars, having masses between approximately 13 to 75–80 times that of Jupiter, or approximately to about.
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Carbon
Carbon (from carbo "coal") is a chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6.
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Chthonian planet
Chthonian planets (sometimes 'cthonian') are a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic escape.
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Critical point (thermodynamics)
In thermodynamics, a critical point (or critical state) is the end point of a phase equilibrium curve.
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Deuterium
Deuterium (or hydrogen-2, symbol or, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other being protium, or hydrogen-1).
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Exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside our solar system.
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Exoplanet Data Explorer
The Exoplanet Data Explorer / Exoplanet Orbit Database lists extrasolar planets up to 24 Jupiter masses.
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Exoplanetology
Exoplanetology, or exoplanetary science, is an integrated field of astronomical science dedicated to the search and study of exoplanets (extrasolar planets).
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Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia is an astronomy website, founded in Paris, France at the Meudon Observatory by Jean Schneider in February 1995, which maintains a database of all the currently known and candidate extrasolar planets, with individual pages for each planet and a full list interactive catalog spreadsheet.
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Gas
Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma).
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Gas giant
A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.
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Great Red Spot
The Great Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm 22° south of the planet's equator.
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Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element with symbol He and atomic number 2.
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Hot Jupiter
Hot Jupiters are a class of gas giant exoplanets that are inferred to be physically similar to Jupiter but that have very short orbital period (P The close proximity to their stars and high surface-atmosphere temperatures resulted in the moniker "hot Jupiters". Hot Jupiters are the easiest extrasolar planets to detect via the radial-velocity method, because the oscillations they induce in their parent stars' motion are relatively large and rapid compared to those of other known types of planets. One of the best-known hot Jupiters is 51 Pegasi b. Discovered in 1995, it was the first extrasolar planet found orbiting a Sun-like star. 51 Pegasi b has an orbital period of about 4 days.
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Hot Neptune
A hot Neptune or Hoptune is a type of giant planet with a mass similar to that of Uranus or Neptune orbiting close to its star, normally within less than 1 AU.
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1.
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Ice giant
An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.
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International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.
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James Blish
James Benjamin Blish (–) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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Jupiter (mythology)
Jupiter (from Iūpiter or Iuppiter, *djous “day, sky” + *patēr “father," thus "heavenly father"), also known as Jove gen.
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Jupiter mass
Jupiter mass, also called Jovian mass is the unit of mass equal to the total mass of the planet Jupiter.
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List of Transformers planets
This is a list of planets appearing in the fictional Transformers universe.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.
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Metallic hydrogen
Metallic hydrogen is a phase of hydrogen in which it behaves like an electrical conductor.
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Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen).
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Methods of detecting exoplanets
Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star.
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Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.
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Nice model
The Nice model is a scenario for the dynamical evolution of the Solar System.
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Nuclear fusion
In nuclear physics, nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei come close enough to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).
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O-type main-sequence star
An O-type main-sequence star (O V) is a main-sequence (core hydrogen-burning) star of spectral type O and luminosity class V. These stars have between 15 and 90 times the mass of the Sun and surface temperatures between 30,000 and 50,000 K. They are between 40,000 and 1,000,000 times as luminous as the Sun.
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Optical depth
In physics, optical depth or optical thickness, is the natural logarithm of the ratio of incident to transmitted radiant power through a material, and spectral optical depth or spectral optical thickness is the natural logarithm of the ratio of incident to transmitted spectral radiant power through a material.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Phase (matter)
In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of space (a thermodynamic system), throughout which all physical properties of a material are essentially uniform.
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Photoevaporation
Photoevaporation denotes the process where energetic radiation ionises gas and causes it to disperse away from the ionising source.
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Physics Today
Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics that was established in 1948.
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Planet
A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.
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Planetary system
A planetary system is a set of gravitationally bound non-stellar objects in or out of orbit around a star or star system.
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Protoplanetary disk
A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disk of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star.
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Rock (geology)
Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
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Science (TV network)
Science Channel (often referred to as simply Science) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Discovery Inc. The channel features programming focusing on the fields of wilderness survival, ufology, manufacturing, construction, technology, space, prehistory and animal science.
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Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element with symbol Si and atomic number 14.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
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Solid
Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being liquid, gas, and plasma).
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Star
A star is type of astronomical object consisting of a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity.
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Stellar wind
A stellar wind is a flow of gas ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star.
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Sudarsky's gas giant classification
Sudarsky's classification of gas giants for the purpose of predicting their appearance based on their temperature was outlined by David Sudarsky and colleagues in the paper Albedo and Reflection Spectra of Extrasolar Giant Planets and expanded on in Theoretical Spectra and Atmospheres of Extrasolar Giant Planets, published before any successful direct or indirect observation of an extrasolar planet atmosphere was made.
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
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Terrestrial planet
A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet is a planet that is composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals.
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Tyche (hypothetical planet)
Tyche is a hypothetical gas giant located in the Solar System's Oort cloud, first proposed in 1999 by astrophysicists John Matese, Patrick Whitman and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.
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Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_planet
