Artificial planet
An artificial planet (also known as a planetary replica or a replica planet) is a proposed stellar megastructure. Its defining characteristic is that it has sufficient mass to generate its own gravity field that is strong enough to prevent atmosphere from escaping, although the term has been sometimes used to describe other types of megastructures that have self-sufficient ecosystems. The concept can be found in many works of science-fiction.
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