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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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He said that most of the 300-plus exoplanets discovered to date are "so massive that we expect them to be gas or ice giants like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune".
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These ice giants float down from Greenland in summer and Newfoundlanders follow them the way tornado freaks chase the big storm.
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