Jupiter #shorts
Channel: Public Domain Video Content
Date: 2022-11-18

Jupiter

Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. It is the fifth planet from the Sun. Jupiter is a gas giant, because it is so large and made of gas. The other gas giants are Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Jupiter's mass is 1.8986×10^27 power kg, or about 318 times the mass of Earth.
This is more than twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System put together. Jupiter can be seen even without using a telescope. The ancient Romans named the planet after their King of Gods, Jupiter (Latin: Iuppiter). Jupiter is the third brightest object in the night sky.
Only the Earth's moon and Venus are brighter. Jupiter has 79 moons. About 50 of them are very small—less than five kilometres wide. The four largest moons of Jupiter are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
They are called the Galilean moons, because Galileo Galilei discovered them.


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CC BY-SA 3.0, https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter


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By NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) - http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410a/ or http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/24/image/b/ (Archive), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32799232
By NASA - This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA02855., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1976022
By NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team - https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2020/42/4739-Image, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95740740
By NASA/JPL/DLR - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01299 (direct link), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17838901