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2022-12-14: How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?

  • 13:54: Jupiter, Saturn, and probably the other gas giants are also supercritical ocean worlds in a way.

2022-05-25: The Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy

  • 14:38: ... produce life because those systems would produce   too many gas giants. Some of you asked why that’s  the case. It’s simply because gas ...
  • 15:22: ... few of you pointed out that even a system with  lots of gas giants could have habitable moons.   Now that’s true. There’s a good ...
  • 14:38: ... giants. Some of you asked why that’s  the case. It’s simply because gas giants form when   a large enough rocky or icy core forms to start  ...

2022-05-18: What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?

  • 03:40: ... vast atmospheres of hydrogen and helium and became   the gas giants. At the same time, the core  of the collapsing protostar became ...
  • 05:52: ... is  too high, it can lead to the formation of too   many gas giants like Jupiter - and that can also  cause trouble for smaller ...
  • 09:08: ... protecting the  inner system from infalling comets,   but gas giants can also disrupt or destroy  terrestrial planets. A system with ...

2020-10-05: Venus May Have Life!

  • 06:17: ... spotted the characteristic absorption features of phosphine in the two gas giants - but no one screamed life, because there’s a clear mechanism for ...

2020-06-08: Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?

  • 06:03: Perhap more promising are the ocean moons of the gas giants.
  • 06:07: ... surfaces; oceans kept warm by the tidal flexing caused by their parent gas giants. ...

2018-01-31: Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds

  • 05:45: ... in the inner solar system, but come together further out, giving us gas giants and comets and ...

2017-08-16: Extraterrestrial Superstorms

  • 00:06: ... are a breeze compared to the great planet-sized tempests of the gas giants. ...
  • 04:37: As they contract, gas giants convert gravitational potential energy into heat, which in turn powers the largest storms in the solar system.
  • 04:50: ... Earth, the only source of condensation is water, but the gas giants' atmospheres span such a wide range of temperature and pressure that all ...
  • 05:29: But on the gas giants, it can extend 100 miles into the planet's murky depths, where pressure forces the gas into a metallic liquid state.
  • 07:56: ... potentially life-bearing moons like Europa and to peek under the gas giant's cloud ...
  • 04:50: ... Earth, the only source of condensation is water, but the gas giants' atmospheres span such a wide range of temperature and pressure that all sorts of ...
  • 07:56: ... potentially life-bearing moons like Europa and to peek under the gas giant's cloud ...
  • 04:37: As they contract, gas giants convert gravitational potential energy into heat, which in turn powers the largest storms in the solar system.

2017-02-22: The Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!

  • 08:07: ... a close encounter destabilized the whole solar system and flung the gas giants into their current, more spread out ...

2016-07-06: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past

  • 07:53: However, the Nice Model posits that the orbits of the four gas giants were much more tightly clustered back then.
  • 08:42: As the three outer gas giants plowed through the great field of planetesimals, they scattered this material through the solar system.

2016-02-17: Planet X Discovered?? + Challenge Winners!

  • 02:39: ... to the original discovery of Pluto, which is way too small to affect the gas giants ...

2015-02-11: What Planet Is Super Mario World?

  • 04:59: ... find those with values that are many times Earth g's are thought to be gas giants. ...
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