![]() ![]() ![]() These can't really be terraformed, and are also bigger than ice giants. Gas giants such as Jupiter or Saturn, composed of 90% hydrogen, do have a solid core, but it consists of metallic hydrogen, which can only exist at extremely high pressures - if the atmosphere was lost, the core and the liquified gases surrounding it would evaporate. ![]() For this, the gas giant would have to have a lot of oxygen, which not many seem to do. The central and densest part of the ring is inhabited, but there is no gravity. This is a ring of gas in orbit around a neutron star, formed by a gas giant which went too close to the star and lost its atmosphere. Larry Niven's book The Integral Trees is set in the "Smoke Ring". For "ice giants" like Uranus or Neptune, yes. ![]()
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