Quote Originally Posted by Khedrac View Post
That's what I grew up being taught, but it's not what they are now!

Jupiter and Saturn as 'Gas Giants', Uranus and Neptune are now 'Ice Giants' whatever that means.
I've heard that term before but never considered that Neptune and Uranus couldn't be both gas giants and ice giants. NASA probably calls Neptune an ice giant because they think it might have an "ocean of super hot water" deep within the extremely cold hydrogen/helium atmosphere.