Table of Contents
29 relations: Ammonia, Brown dwarf, Cassini–Huygens, Degenerate matter, Giant planet, Grand tack hypothesis, Gravity, Great Red Spot, Helium, Hot Jupiter, Hydrodynamic escape, Hydrogen, Ice giant, James Blish, Jupiter, Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism, Kepler-138, Kepler-1704b, List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System, List of planet types, Metallic hydrogen, Neptune, New Horizons, Nuclear fusion, Phase (matter), Physics Today, Saturn, Solar System, Uranus.
- Gas giants
- Types of planet
Ammonia
Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula.
Brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars. Gas giant and Brown dwarf are types of planet.
Cassini–Huygens
Cassini–Huygens, commonly called Cassini, was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
See Gas giant and Cassini–Huygens
Degenerate matter
Degenerate matter occurs when the Pauli exclusion principle significantly alters a state of matter at low temperature.
See Gas giant and Degenerate matter
Giant planet
A giant planet, sometimes referred to as a jovian planet (Jove being another name for the Roman god Jupiter), is a diverse type of planet much larger than Earth. Gas giant and giant planet are Solar System and types of planet.
See Gas giant and Giant planet
Grand tack hypothesis
In planetary astronomy, the grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at a distance of 3.5 AU from the Sun, then migrated inward to 1.5 AU, before reversing course due to capturing Saturn in an orbital resonance, eventually halting near its current orbit at 5.2 AU. Gas giant and grand tack hypothesis are Solar System.
See Gas giant and Grand tack hypothesis
Gravity
In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.
Great Red Spot
The Great Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm that is the largest in the Solar System.
See Gas giant and Great Red Spot
Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.
Hot Jupiter
Hot Jupiters (sometimes called hot Saturns) are a class of gas giant exoplanets that are inferred to be physically similar to Jupiter but that have very short orbital periods (. Gas giant and hot Jupiter are types of planet.
Hydrodynamic escape
In atmospheric science, hydrodynamic escape refers to a thermal atmospheric escape mechanism that can lead to the escape of heavier atoms of a planetary atmosphere through numerous collisions with lighter atoms.
See Gas giant and Hydrodynamic escape
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
Ice giant
An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. Gas giant and ice giant are Solar System.
James Blish
James Benjamin Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. Gas giant and Jupiter are gas giants and Solar System.
Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
The Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism is an astronomical process that occurs when the surface of a star or a planet cools.
See Gas giant and Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism
Kepler-138
Kepler-138, also known as KOI-314, is a red dwarf located in the constellation Lyra, 219 light years from Earth.
Kepler-1704b
Kepler-1704b is a super-Jupiter on a highly eccentric orbit around the star Kepler-1704.
See Gas giant and Kepler-1704b
List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
This is a list of most likely gravitationally rounded objects (GRO) of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their own gravity (but are not necessarily in hydrostatic equilibrium). Gas giant and list of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System are Solar System.
See Gas giant and List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System
List of planet types
The following is a list of planet types by their mass, orbit, physical and chemical composition, or by another classification. Gas giant and list of planet types are types of planet.
See Gas giant and List of planet types
Metallic hydrogen
Metallic hydrogen is a phase of hydrogen in which it behaves like an electrical conductor.
See Gas giant and Metallic hydrogen
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun. Gas giant and Neptune are gas giants and Solar System.
New Horizons
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
See Gas giant and New Horizons
Nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).
See Gas giant and Nuclear fusion
Phase (matter)
In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of material that is chemically uniform, physically distinct, and (often) mechanically separable.
See Gas giant and Phase (matter)
Physics Today
Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics.
See Gas giant and Physics Today
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Gas giant and Saturn are gas giants and Solar System.
Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
See Gas giant and Solar System
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Gas giant and Uranus are gas giants and Solar System.
See also
Gas giants
- 2M0437 b
- COCONUTS-2b
- Gas giant
- Jupiter
- Kepler-15b
- Neptune
- Saturn
- Sudarsky's gas giant classification
- TOI-5678 b
- Uranus
- WASP-107b
- WD 1856+534
- WD J0914+1914
- YSES 2 b
Types of planet
- Brown dwarf
- Circumbinary planet
- Double planet
- Dwarf planet
- Dwarf planets
- Earth analog
- Eccentric Jupiter
- Exoplanet
- Extragalactic planet
- Gas giant
- Giant planet
- Giant planets
- Hot Jupiter
- Hot Jupiters
- Hot Neptune
- Hot Neptunes
- Hycean planet
- Ice planet
- Iron planet
- Lava planet
- List of planet types
- Mega-Earth
- Mesoplanet
- Ocean world
- Protoplanet
- Protoplanets
- Pulsar planet
- Pulsar planets
- Rogue planet
- Rogue planets
- Sub-Earth
- Sub-brown dwarf
- Super-Earth
- Super-Earths
- Super-Jupiter
- Super-Neptune
- Super-puff
- Synestia
- Terrestrial planet
- Terrestrial planets
- Toroidal planet
- Ultra-short period planet
References
Also known as Gas Giants, Gas giant planet, Gas planet, Gas planets, Gas-giant, Gaseous giant, Gaseous planets, Gassy planet, Gassy planets, Giant gas planet.