Enlarge (credit: NASA/JPL ) The formation of a gas giant involves a race against time. Planets come into being as newly forming stars heat up, a process that quickly drives all the stray gas out of the planet-creating regions nearby. To create the gas giant, a large, rocky planet has to form prior to this […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Tonight’s the night: Saturn and Jupiter will appear closer in the night sky than they have in centuries, in an astronomical event called a “conjunction.” The gas giants, the solar system’s two largest planets, will […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Tonight’s the night: Saturn and Jupiter will appear closer in the night sky than they have in centuries, in an astronomical event called a “conjunction.” The gas giants, the solar system’s two largest planets, will […]