Questions tagged [gas-giants]
Questions regarding massive planets composed of layers of gases, such as hydrogen and helium, surrounding a solid/liquid core.
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What would Uranus look like from light years away?
It has been suggested that at least some of the "super-puff" planets may actually be ordinary planets with rings. Saturn, for instance, may appear as a "super-puff" to an alien ...
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How can ultraviolet planetary images help us in research?
Recently I was browsing through Ultraviolet images clicked by Cassini, Galileo and Hubble Space Telescope on OPUS and though they all seemed quite attractive, I couldn't quite figure out what all ...
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About the formation of ice giants and gas giants
I asked this previously in Worldbuilding stack exchange, and they recommended that I take it here.
How far out from a star (lets just say one identical to our sun, for simplicities sake) where can gas ...
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JWST Early Black Holes: Gas Collapsed To Metallic Hydrogen Core?
I was reading an article about early black holes found by JWST at Redshift 9. And saw that there was wonder at how large amounts of gas could collapse into a black hole as a theory.
So my question is ...
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On the Radiation Field of large Gas Giants
I am woring on creating a fictional star system, and I need to find an answer to a question to find an accurate way to depict this.
I am aware that Gas Giants create a dangerous field of radiation ...
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Does rotation on their axis cause winds in gaseous planets?
As far as I know, as planets rotate around their axis, they can influence winds but not cause them (like the Coriolis effect)
However, does this apply only for rocky planets? Do rotation alone in ...
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Sub brown dwarf cores
I’ve heard that the cores of sub-brown dwarfs (sub brown dwarfs mass objects that form the same way as stars and brown stars instead of forming like planets do.) are different from that of gas giants.
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What would a gas giant, such as Uranus, look like if it were orbiting a sun like star at an Earthlike orbit?
This is a hypothetical. If a gas giant with the approximate mass and density of Uranus existed within the goldilocks range to support life around a star, what would be the conditions on the service. ...
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At what point above Jupiter is the gravity Earth-like?
Jupiter is a massive planet. We get it. However, we have also heard that, since it has such a huge radius, at different elevations it is possible to experience different levels of gravity. We hear ...
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Temperature of a gas giant 23 AU from Fomalhaut
If a gas giant, weighing about 30 Jupiter masses, orbited the A-type star Fomalhaut at 23 AU, what would its temperature be? Would it be warm enough to have ammonia clouds like Jupiter or Saturn, or ...
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Could a super-Jupiter exoplanet in the habitable zone have an axial tilt?
I’m wondering if a massive planet (maybe 10 times the mass of Jupiter) in the habitable zone of a G type star could have an axial tilt similar to earth or if gravitational forces would erode the tilt ...
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Which one of the gas and ice giants has the least varying orbital characteristics? [closed]
Which one of the gas and ice giants of our solar system has the least varying orbital characteristics (obliquity, eccentricity etc.)?
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If you were standing on a habitable moon of a gas giant, what would the planet look like during the day vs the night? [closed]
If you were standing on the proplanetary side of a habitable moon of a gas giant, and the moon had a thick enough atmosphere to make the sky blue, how would the gas giant look during the day? Would it ...
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Are there areas within Jupiter's magnetosphere without powerful radiation?
I know Jupiter has powerful radiation belts, but I'm wondering if there are places within the magnetosphere that are relatively calm. I'm asking about Jupiter (a gas giant we know) because I'm curious ...
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How does this Toomre GI criteria have the period in the denominator?
I saw this equation in a literature review recently talking about the Toomre criterion for gravitational instability:
Given here in section 2.1.1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.06117.pdf, viz.
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