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Because they are made of Gas.

Different Gasses...

Gas Giants include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

They are made of Gas and etc. because they are big. Bigger than the Earth and comparable to the Sun.

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there called gaseous planets because they are the planets made of gas

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