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Spitzer, meanwhile, found a surprisinglack of water in the atmospheres of two other gas giants.

they're both gas giants and yet Saturn has less sunlight to power the winds, and winds are stronger.

After 10 billion years of cooling, large gas giants are all very nearly Jupiter's radius, but more massive objects are slightly smaller.

It could be that the planet managed to cling onto a moon when all the other gas giants in our solar system had already lost theirs.

At this point, the solar system is composed only of solid, protoplanetary bodies and gas giants.

Most famous of the gas giants is Jupiter, which also benefited from the vigilant observation of an amateur astronomer this week.

The latest work focuses on a type of star system that contains gas giants known as hot Jupiters.

The problem is that most of the exoplanets detected to date, being gas giants, are too close to their stars to have been born there.

To assert its dominance, America wanted to send pioneers to other worlds: the gas giants beyond the rocky planets of the inner solar system.

Hartley 2 is a so-called Jupiter family comet, because its orbit takes the comet close to the orbits of Jupiter and the other gas giants.

The solar wind was much weaker in the outer regions, however, resulting in gas giants made up mostly of hydrogen and helium.

Those are the gas giants, the four heavyweights of the solar system.

The terrestrial planets--like Mars and Earth--composed largely of rocks and metals, and the large gas giants, like Jupiter.

Further away, the gas giants, mostly made of hydrogen, a lot of water.

The multiplanet systems found by Kepler are dominated by planets smaller than Neptune. They lack Jupiter-sized gas giants.

We also have concepts for floating bases in the atmosphere of gas giants.

Without a solid surface, these planets are mainly composed of hydrogen and helium gases. They are called the gas giants.

Rocky planets would form nearest the parent star, with gas giants farther out.

For instance, some systems could house only Earthlike planets and no gas giants, Gould said.

As in our solar system, vast distances stretch between these stars and their gas giants.

In a solar system swirling with gas giants, ringed worlds and the cosmic garden that is Earth, the first planet is also the forgotten one.

In general, massive gas giants have a reputation for slinging things around in space.

The accretion model can't account for the three outer gas giants.

Most of theexoplanets detected to date are gas giants.

Astronomers think that gas giants generally form farther from their stars, while rocky worlds like Earth form closer in.

Most of the worlds we've found are gas giants,