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Something bizarre is unfolding on Jupiter and it’s no longer acting like a planet

For generations, Jupiter has been shorthand for a straightforward idea: the biggest planet in the Solar System, a gas giant ...
What If on MSN

What if Jupiter were a rocky planet instead of a gas giant?

Jupiter is old. Like 4.5 billion years old. It started as a swirling disk of gas and dust that formed into a pretty big ...
AOL

How a young Jupiter saved Earth from falling into the Sun

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...
EDN

NASA Juno electronics study Jupiter: Gravity Science Experiment

The Juno spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter has a suite of science instruments which will investigate the existence of a possible solid planetary core, map Jupiter’s intense magnetic field, measure the ...