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So far it's found one gas giant, but it is hoped that it will start seeing lots more over the next two years or so.

A space ark with a small population of refuges might be dispatched to find shelter on a moon of one of the system's gas giant outer planets.

The name originates from the 18th century, when telescopes weren't powerful enough to distinguish nebulae from gas giant planets.

Scientists believe that a gas giant's powerful gravity tends to disrupt planetary systems, tilting the orbits of neighboring worlds.

Gazprom, Russia's gas giant, is already muttering belligerently that Ukraine may be unable to pay its gas bill after the vote.

That's not the case on some of the solar system's other heavenly bodies, specifically the moons which orbit large gas giant planets.

Not only is the planet a gas giant similar to Jupiter or Saturn, the planet follows an orbit that brings it very close to its parent star.

At the right side of the frame is ruling gas giant Jupiter, flanked along a line by all four of its Galilean satellites.

To evolve into our current solar system, the original version probably had a fifth gas giant, computer simulations indicate.

The Sun is rich in helium, as are the solar system's gas giant planets.

The battle station had to orbit the gas giant Yavin for a clear shot at the smaller moon.

That's because planets bound to a parent star would only reflect the survivors, not how many gas giant planets actually formed.

Arriving at the gas giant before the Falcon, Fett and Vader sprung a trap on the ship's hapless crew.

Current theories suggest two ways in which a gaseous, dusty ring around a young star can form into gas-giant planets.

It may also rain rocks and be the core of a vaporized gas giant.

Guest contributor Adam Crowl looks at the fuel required for an interstellar trip and finds a gas giant with huge mining potential.

PLANETRISE: In an artist's conception, rocky moons orbit a gas giant in a distant planetary system.

Jupiter is a gas giant planet, mainly composed of hydrogen and helium, the sun's average distance of 7. 7 billion kilometers.

Tyche is the nickname given to a hypothesized gas giant planet located in the Solar System's Oort cloud.

In return for going into business with the Russian gas giant, RWE would likely get cheaper gas, but still on the basis of oil indexation.

the rarity of the images alone makes them valuable , but the shots also raised an intriguing question about the gas giant ' s composition.

Russia's debt-ridden gas giant, Gazprom, lacks the money to build this, so it needs help from the European Union and Germany.

Did the planet's gravitational influence somehow interrupt the creation of another gas giant farther out?

Researchers have long debated how close in gas giant planets form from a flat disk of primordial gas and dust.

Life would perish in seconds here. Saturn's a typical gas giant with chemistry unlike anything on Earth.

HR 8799e's relative closeness to its star makes it difficult to explain how both it and its gas-giant companions formed.

In Moscow he ran Mr Putin's presidential campaign and chaired Gazprom, the gas giant.

The spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to investigate the gas giant's atmosphere and aurora.

Once the mass goes beyond that point, you start to get into gas giant territory.

Caption : Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy slam into the gas giant Jupiter in 1994.

But like gas giant neighbour Jupiter, it's a triumph of show over substance.

At its nearest approach, Juno will fly a 5, 000 kilometers above the gas giant, nearly skimming its dense, swirling cloud tops.

Juno will also help determine if Jupiter, a gas giant, has a solid core.

But Saturn's fellow gas giant planet Jupiter has four big moons.

As one example, a gas giant planet called HD 209458b has been found to contain oxygen, carbon and water.

How did its president come to control the oil and gas giant in the first place?

Theplanet is a gas giant similar in size to Jupiter but with six times themass.

The gas giant's closest approach will be at a distance of 368 million miles on Monday, September 20.

This image of Saturn was made in November 1980 by the Voyager1 spacecraft as it flew past the ringed gas giant planet.

A remote world that became a focal point in galactic history, Yavin 4 is a jungle moon orbiting the gas giant of Yavin.

So if you're living on Neptune, then you can't live on Neptune, because it's a gas giant.

The planet, designated VB 10b, is a gas giant, 6. 4 times the mass of Jupiter.

This is a transitional planet somewhere between a gas giant and what we've been hoping to find.

Hot on the heels of last year's asteroid impact on Jupiter, the gas giant planet has been smacked once again.