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A gas giant is a large planet not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. Supermassive gas giants are usually considered to be gas giants of 1 to 13 Jupiter masses.

Objects large enough to start deuterium fusion (above roughly 13 Jupiter masses) are called brown dwarfs or failed suns and these occupy the mass range between that of large gas giants and the lowest-mass stars.

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