Wouldn’t these giant planets have a solid core. Gravity should pull in all kinds of matter right? Or do they have a solid core and if so wouldnt it be possible for life to erupt there?
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Jupiter and Saturn are suspected to have solid or liquid cores. Even if they started off as only gas, the massive pressure at the core of the ball of gas that makes them up would cause the gasses to turn to liquid.
(Edit: tangentially related science – A lower atmospheric pressure also lowers the boiling point of a liquid, so for instance if you were to put a cup of water in a sealed pressure vessel and slowly remove the air towards a vacuum, the water would begin to boil off at a much lower temperature than 100 c. Conversely, if you raise the atmospheric pressure, the boiling point of a liquid rises, so under high pressure, it is possible to have water in liquid form above 100c, and there is a pressure “critical point” where the properties of a gas and a liquid are the same)
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