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1 day ago · Jupiter is surrounded by a faint planetary ring system and has a powerful magnetosphere, the second largest contiguous structure in the Solar System (after the heliosphere). Jupiter forms a system of 95 known moons and probably many more, including the four large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
2 days ago · Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system and the fifth in distance from the Sun. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; only the Moon, Venus, and sometimes Mars are more brilliant. Jupiter takes nearly 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and it rotates once about every 10 hours.
2 days ago · RELATED: NASA reveals 'glass-smooth lake of cooling lava' on surface of Jupiter's moon Io. A secondary hypothesis suggests that magma wells up in the middle of the lake, pushing the crust outward ...
2 days ago · Jupiter - Gas Giant, Moons, Orbit: Jupiter has an equatorial diameter of about 143,000 km (88,900 miles) and orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 778 million km (483 million miles). The table shows additional physical and orbital data for Jupiter.
3 days ago · Explore the fascinating world inside the planet! In this video, we take you on a journey to discover the inner workings of a planet's atmosphere and structur...
4 days ago · Jupiter is a gas giant covered with swirling cloud stripes. It looks like a very bright dot to the naked eye in our skies, and a small telescope will show it as a pale white or cream color planet. Can a human live in Jupiter?
5 days ago · Astronomers using the James Webb have gleaned the secrets of Jupiter's overlooked region of upper atmosphere near its enormous storm.
