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gas giant
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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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285) made me wonder how long a gas planet is expected to survive when one of its faces is more than 1,000[degrees]C.
Gone with the heat? by Shernoff, Donald / Science News
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are the outer gas planets.
How many planets? by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
What puzzles astronomers is that, unlike large gas planets in our solar system that orbit far away from the sun, these giants orbit very closely to their star (see graph, p.
New Planets by RIVERA, RACHEL / Science World
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