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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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Only later did those cores capture enough gas to create the giant planets seen today.
Idiosyncratic Iapetus: Saturnian moon puts a time stamp on the outer ... by Cowen, Ron / Science News
We study giant planets to look inside at ourselves and to look far away," Atkinson says.
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Further study is motivated not only by fundamental interest but also because experiments may shed light on the physics of dense cores of gas giant planets like Jupiter, or guide efforts to create anti-hydrogen through the recombination of positrons and anti-protons.
ULTRACOLD NEUTRAL PLASMAS CREATED AT NIST by Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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