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  2. List of fantasy worlds - Wikipedia

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    The world in which Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 take place. Final Fantasy X: 2001: V Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension". Reversing the usual sequence of events, Barker spent decades building his elaborate, detailed world before designing the initial tabletop role-playing game.

  3. Gas giant - Wikipedia

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    A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. [1] Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants of the Solar System. The term "gas giant" was originally synonymous with "giant planet". However, in the 1990s, it became known that Uranus and Neptune are really a distinct class of giant planets, being composed mainly of heavier ...

  4. Floating cities and islands in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The science-fantasy sandbox game ARK: Survival Evolved features floating islands on The Center, Crystal Isles, and many modded maps. Several floating islands generate in each world in the game Terraria. Small floating islands are featured in the game Botanica on the planet with the same name. Other

  5. Chthonian planet - Wikipedia

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    Chthonian planets ( / ˈkθoʊniən /, sometimes 'cthonian') are a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant 's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic escape. Such atmospheric stripping is a likely result of proximity to a star.

  6. This giant gas planet is as fluffy and puffy as cotton candy

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    Astronomers have identified a planet that’s bigger than Jupiter yet surprisingly as fluffy and light as cotton candy. The gas giants in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...

  7. Fictional planets of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The fictional portrayal of the Solar System has often included planets, moons, and other celestial objects which do not actually exist. Some of these objects were, at one time, seriously considered as hypothetical planets which were either thought to have been observed, or were hypothesized to be orbiting the Sun in order to explain certain celestial phenomena.

  8. List of hypothetical Solar System objects - Wikipedia

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    Planets. Counter-Earth, a planet situated on the other side of the Sun from that of the Earth. Fifth planet (hypothetical), historical speculation about a planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Phaeton, a planet situated between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt.

  9. Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.A gas giant, Jupiter's mass is more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm) with an orbital period of 11.86 years.