Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and is the fifth planet out from the Sun. It is two and a half times more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined. It is made primarily of gases and is therefore known as a “ gas giant ”. Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar system.
Jupiter is the largest and oldest planet in our solar system. If Jupiter was a hollow shell, 1,000 Earths could fit inside. But the "King of Planets" is no lumbering giant — Jupiter has the shortest day in the solar system, taking about 9.9 hours to spin around once on its axis.
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass nearly 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
Jupiter is a world of extremes. It's the largest planet in our solar system – if it were a hollow shell, 1,000 Earths could fit inside. It's also the oldest planet, forming from the dust and gases left over from the Sun's formation 4.6 billion years ago.
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