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Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jul 2024 04:48:15 UTC No. 16288067
how do our gas giants have the heat energy to stay gaseous?
i would imagine them extremely cold so all the gas should have contracted into liquid, making them "water worlds"
do they really receive enough heat energy from the sun or is it all leftover heat from their creation?
will they become water worlds one day?
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:30:27 UTC No. 16288175
I imagine in some far distant future they will but long before then I think the red giant phase of the sun will boil them.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:34:13 UTC No. 16288200
>>16288067
>how do our gas giants have the heat energy to stay gaseous?
are they gaseous?
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:51:16 UTC No. 16288208
leftover heat from there creation plus as they cool they contract which converts gravitational potential energy into heat.
also the immense pressures inside them means they're mostly a supercritical fluid rather than a gas.
Anonymous at Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:27:39 UTC No. 16288275
>>16288208
>>16288200
was thinking about the outer layers of gas
i know the gas inside is compressed, but the outer layers should be all liquid one day
Anonymous at Sat, 20 Jul 2024 07:08:50 UTC No. 16289326
>>16288275
>but the outer layers should be all liquid one day
if the Sun doesn't blow up in the meanwhile, they will be a solid ball, eventually.
I wonder how the plate tectonics on Jupiter are like. What topography and liquid bodies lie below.