giant planet
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giant planet (plural giant planets)
(astronomy, planets) A planet larger than terrestrial planets, composed mostly of gases and astronomical ices.
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It’s a (very) “hot Jupiter” giant planet orbiting a star about 670 light-years away.
Ring systems may form around centaurs when they are tidally disrupted in a close encounter (within 0.4 to 0.8 times the Roche limit ) with a giant planet.
He separated the planets (objects that form like Jupiter) from brown dwarfs or medium sized celestial objects in between a giant planet and a small star.
If they have a small telescope, they may watch the four largest of its moons, hour by hour, change position as they orbit this giant planet.
Trask is the estuary moon in the same star system as the gas giant planet known as Kol Iben.
This artist's conception illustrates a gas giant planet alone in the dark of space, ejected from its own star system.