Gas giant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A gas giant (sometimes also known as a Jovian planet after the planet Jupiter, or giant planet ) is a large planet that is not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. There are four ga...
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Solar System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago....
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According to astronomer Alan P. Boss (Astronomy, October 2006), there's little agreement among astronomers on how the largest gas giants in the Solar System (Jupiter and Saturn) and even larger, recently discovered extra-solar giant planets may have formed.
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www.solstation.com/stars/jovians.htm
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Astronomers believe objects in the solar system condensed from a rotating disc of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago. Initially, these bodies are thought to have travelled along ... A cloud of hydrogen crashing into our galaxy now appears be a galaxy itself, packed with dark matter – many more may be out there...
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www.newscientist.com/article/dn7429
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The sixth planet in our outbound journey of the solar system is Saturn, the ringed planet. This magnificent planet with its many rings and over 60 moons is under observation by NASA’s Cassini probe, which continues to return amazing images ... Tour of Our Solar System: From the Inner Rocky Planets to the Outer Gas Giants...
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www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/49252.aspx
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While the terrestrial magnetosphere shares many common features with planetary magnetospheres, ... The session will focus on the observations and theoretical modelling of the atmospheres of solar system gas (Jupiter, Saturn) and ice giants (Neptune, Uranus) and will build a bridge to the atmospheres expected on extra...
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www.bu.edu/csp/uv/cp-aeronomy/Meetings07.html
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The giant planets are sometimes also referred to as gas giants. ... A Solar System Scale Model Meta Page (links to many others) ... What is the origin of the solar system? It is generally agreed that it condensed from a nebula of dust and gas. But the details are far from clear.
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www.nineplanets.org/overview.html
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The first planets outside our solar system were spotted in 1990, ... Starting in 1995 with 51 Pegasi b—the first extrasolar, or “exoplanet,” discovered around a normal star—planet hunters have found alien worlds that run the gamut in terms of diversity. There are large, gassy giants and small and rocky worlds.
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www.space.com/scienceastronomy/extrasolar_planets.html
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For starters, so many gas giants beyond our solar system have been found improbably close to their host stars—in some cases with blistering effects and an unsustainable outflow of material—that researchers figure they probably formed farther out and then migrated inward.
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www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071205-giant-planets.htm...
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