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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass nearly 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Its diameter is 11 times that of Earth and a tenth that of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of , with an orbital period of . It is the third-brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky, after the Moon and Venus, and has been observed since prehistoric times. Its name derives from that of Jupiter, the chief deity of ancient Roman religi
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth of the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive. Even though Saturn is almost as big as Jupiter, Saturn has less than a third of its mass. Saturn orbits the Sun at a distance of , with an orbital period of 29.45 years.
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or volatiles. The planet's atmosphere has a complex layered cloud structure and has the lowest minimum temperature () of all the Solar System's planets. It has a marked axial tilt of 82.23° with a retrograde rotation period of 17 hours and 14 minutes. This means that in an 84-Earth-year orbital period around the Sun, its poles get around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet orbiting the Sun. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times the mass of Earth. Compared to Uranus, its neighbouring ice giant, Neptune is slightly smaller, but more massive and denser. Being composed primarily of gases and liquids, it has no well-defined solid surface. Neptune orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years at an orbital distance of . It is named after the Roman god of the sea and has the astronomical symbol representing Neptune's t
gas giant
giant planet which mainly consist of light elements such as hydrogen and helium
Sudarsky extrasolar planet classification
WASP-107b
WASP-107b is a super-Neptune exoplanet that orbits the K-type star WASP-107. It lies 200 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Virgo. Its discovery was announced in 2017 by a team led by D. R. Anderson via the WASP-South.
WD 1856+534
White dwarf
WISEPA J075108.79-763449.6
COCONUTS-2 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits the M-type star L 34-26. With a mass of 8 Jupiters, it takes over one million years to complete one orbit around the star orbiting 7,506 AU away from it.
Q12689942
thumb | right | alt=Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet Kepler-9 b with the Solar System planet Jupiter, as reported in the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, 2015 | Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet Kepler-9 b with the Solar System planet Jupiter, as reported in the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, 2015 Kepler-15b is a planet discovered by the Kepler spacecraft. It is a hot Jupiter, with a mass of 0.66 MJ, a radius 0.96 RJ and a period of about 4.94 days.
WDJ0914+1914
star in the constellation Cancer
TOI 1338 b
extrasolar planet