– How do gas giants not have a surface? Where do asteroids and comets go when they get sucked in? What’s at the center of a gas giant?

Question

This has always baffled me. I can’t really understand how they could just not have a surface no matter how far down you go. Obviously gravity has to pull the gasses together into some more dense form eventually… right?

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Answer 1

As the pressure grows stronger the closer you get to the center the components of the gas giant turn to a solid state. It also happens with the ice giants, the water turns to a form of ice that only happens when there is so much water that the pressure of it’s weight doesn’t allow the water molecules to move