A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants of the Solar System. The term "gas giant" was...

Uranus, and Neptune. Many extrasolar giant planets have been identified. Giant planets are sometimes known as gas giants, but many astronomers now apply the...

Neptune were a distinct class of giant planet, separate from the other giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, which are gas giants predominantly composed of hydrogen...

Sudarsky classification as used in Celestia. Sudarsky's classification of gas giants for the purpose of predicting their appearance based on their temperature...

world's 932 giant oil and gas fields are considered those with 500 million barrels (79,000,000 m3) of ultimately recoverable oil or gas equivalent. Geoscientists...

Gas Giants were a pop rock band from Tempe, Arizona, formed as a successor project to the Gin Blossoms. The group was known as The Pharaohs when they formed...

accretion stops when the gas is exhausted. The formed planets can migrate over long distances during or after their formation. Ice giants such as Uranus and...

a middle range of distances, roughly equivalent to the Solar System's gas giant region, which is largely unexplored. Direct imaging equipment for exploring...

hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic...

types Stellar classification Sub-Neptune Substellar object Sudarsky's gas giant classification The terms "inferior planet" and "superior planet" were...

are considered a separate category of planets, especially if they are gas giants, often counted as sub-brown dwarfs. The rogue planets in the Milky Way...

In addition to water and ammonia, the clouds in the atmospheres of the gas giant planets contain ammonium sulfides. The reddish-brownish clouds are attributed...

atoms) has its origin from that time. This is the ratio found in the gas giant planets, such as Jupiter. The analysis of deuterium–protium ratios in...

planetesimals allow the giant planets to escape from the resonance chain roughly ten million years after the dissipation of the gas disk. The planets then...

in both a solar environment and in the atmosphere of a gas giant. "Good Jupiters" are gas giants, like the Solar System's Jupiter, that orbit their stars...

Tyche /ˈtaɪki/ was a hypothetical gas giant located in the Solar System's Oort cloud, first proposed in 1999 by astrophysicists John Matese, Patrick Whitman...

multiple HZ planets. Most such planets, being either super-Earths or gas giants, are more massive than Earth, because massive planets are easier to detect...

Jupiter-like gas giant. During the development phases of the young Sun, which resembled those of a T Tauri star, the dense atmosphere of the gas giant was stripped...

the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. A gas giant, Jupiter's mass is more than two and a half times that of all the other...

is set in the mid-22nd century on Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The film's central conflict is between...

Wars fictional universe. Located in the Outer Rim, this moon orbits the gas giant Yavin. It appears mainly in the films Rogue One and A New Hope, for which...

held. The moon orbits Tana—the Ewokese word for Endor's host planet—a gas giant located in the Endor system, a star system positioned in the Moddell sector...

composition from traditional stony/iron, to ice or to fluid metallic hydrogen. Gas giant cores are proportionally much smaller than those of terrestrial planets...

also be intelligent life on Earth. Recognizing that the solar system's gas giant planets create "blind spots" that could allow some life to survive a photoid...

believed to be a divine sign that God would soon destroy their enemies. The gas giant planets have many moons and thus frequently display eclipses. The most...

Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine-and-a-half times that of Earth. It...

HR 2562 b is a brown dwarf or gas giant exoplanet. It is a substellar companion of the debris disk host star HR 2562. HR 2562 is a sixth-magnitude F-type...

a terrestrial planet of the right mass; the advantage of one or more gas giant guardians like Jupiter and possibly a large natural satellite to shield...

satellite. The temperature range of a moon that is tidally locked to a gas giant could be less extreme than with a planet locked to a star. Even though...