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Jupiter Probably Ate a Bunch of Cool Planets

Jupiter Probably Ate a Bunch of Cool Planets

Bright Side Universe

January 11, 202611m 34s

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Show Notes

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest one in our Solar System. Jupiter's huge volume would hold more than 1,300 Earths. Just imagine: if Jupiter was a basketball, our planet would be around the size of a cherry. How did the gas giant get so massive? Some of the new discoveries suggest that Jupiter reached its size by "eating" smaller planets close to it...


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