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gas giant

In astronomy, any of the four large outer planets of the Solar System, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, which consist largely of gas and whose visible surfaces are not solid, though they have solid cores.



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And unlike the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter, Neptune and its neighbor Uranus are heavy and made of ice and rock.
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Saturn While the other gas giants also have rings, Saturn's rings span the farthest.
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