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Glossary term: 外行星

Description: 在太阳系中,外行星包括木星、土星、天王星和海王星。它们的轨道都在小行星带之外,并且所有这些行星都是所谓的巨行星,它们的大气层非常厚,主要由氢气构成。这使得它们在物理上与内行星截然不同,内行星都是相对较小的岩质天体,大气层相对稀薄。

对于太阳以外的恒星,其周围的行星并不一定分为具有类似特征的内行星群和外行星群--我们知道有许多恒星的近轨道上至少有一颗气态巨行星,即 "热木星"。

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木星和围绕它运行的四颗伽利略卫星中的两颗(可见亮点)。

木星的自转,作者 Vishal Sharma,印度

Caption: 2021 年国际天文学联合会 (IAU) 天文教育办公室 (OAE) 天体摄影比赛,伽利略卫星类第三名:《木星的自转》,作者 Vishal Sharma,来自印度。 这幅延时摄影作品精美地展示了木星的自转,以及画面右侧经过的两颗伽利略卫星。木星自转一圈只需不到 10 个小时,我们可以看到大红斑从左向右移动。在这短短的时间内,两颗卫星明显沿着它们的轨道前进了一段距离。这张照片是 2020 年在印度北部拍摄的。
Credit: Vishal Sharma/IAU OAE

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The planet Jupiter, seen here as a bright disk, is orbited by the four Galilean moons, seen here as bright dots

Jupiter Moons Movie2, by Nicolas Hurez, Paul-Antoine Matrangolo, and Carl Pennypacker, United States of America

Caption: Second place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Galilean moons. This sequence shows the orbit of the four Galilean moons around the planet Jupiter. Almost two entire orbits of the innermost moon, Io, can be seen, with the other moons (Europa and Ganymede, but in particular Callisto) being further away, orbiting noticeably slower. The images were obtained in 2018 with the Las Cumbres Global Observatory at different locations on Earth, allowing a continuous sequence of images over approximately half a week without gaps during the day. With clear skies and over the course of several nights, the motion of the Galilean moons can also be observed with binoculars (ideally steady your elbows on a surface).
Credit: Nicolas Hurez, Paul-Antoine Matrangolo and Carl Pennypacker/IAU OAE

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Jupiter with coloured horizontal bands of clouds. The shadow of the moon Io is seen as a dark circle in the top left

Jupiter, Io and its shadow, by Ralf Burkart, Germany

Caption: First place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Galilean moons. This time-lapse of Jupiter taken in 2017 from Germany beautifully illustrates the transit of one of the Galilean moons, Io, in front of Jupiter. As this is simply a moon casting a shadow on a planet it is equivalent to a lunar eclipse on Earth observed from further away. While the shadow of the moon is clearly visible from the beginning, it might be difficult to spot the moon itself against the background of the beautiful atmospheric bands of Jupiter the first time the video is seen. Watching it repeatedly allows appreciating the rapid motion and rotation in this fantastic observation.
Credit: Ralf Burkart/IAU OAE

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The planet Jupiter with horizontal cloud ribbons and the great red spot

Jupiter

Caption: This full disk view of Jupiter was obtained on 21 April 2014 with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). It shows the prominent great red spot, a gigantic cyclone. Cloud ribbons cover the surface, whose colours stem from gases like ammonia and other chemical compounds.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) credit link

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The planet Saturn with pale brownish cloud ribbons and its thin and extended greyish rings

Saturn

Caption: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion kilometres away. The image shows coloured bands of gas on the planet's surface as well as its prominent rings made of ice and rocky material.
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) credit link

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Uranus showing a uniformly greenish-blue coloured appearance

Uranus in natural colours

Caption: This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. Its appearance is close to what the naked eye would see. The greenish-blue colour indicates an atmosphere containing methane.
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Uranus appears as a light blue disk with and a pale polar region. Thin white rings surround the planet

Uranus with rings

Caption: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s ACS/HRC camera observed Uranus in August 2005. The surface depicts white clouds and a bright polar region. The rings around Uranus are narrow and contain rocky material from tiny dust particles up to metre-sized boulders.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) credit link

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Neptune is spherical and blue with thin bands of white cloud and a slightly darker spot just below its equator

Neptune

Caption: Voyager 2 Narrow Angle Camera image of Neptune taken in August 1989. The Great Dark Spot, flanked by cirrus clouds, is at center. A smaller dark storm, Dark Spot Jr., is rotating into view at bottom left. Additionally, a patch of white cirrus clouds to its north, named "Scooter" for its rapid motion relative to other features, is visible.
Credit: NASA / JPL / Voyager-ISS / Justin Cowart credit link

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