Jupiter
King of the planets
A gas giant so massive it could swallow all other planets combined. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm wider than Earth that has raged for centuries.
Image: NASA / Hubble
Vital statistics
Moons
95 known
Gravity vs Earth
2.53 g
Day length
9h 56m
Year length
11.86 Earth years
Diameter
139,820 km
Mass vs Earth
317.8×
Did you know
Jupiter has faint rings made of dust kicked up by its moons.
Fact 01
Its magnetic field is 20,000× stronger than Earth's.
Fact 02
The Great Red Spot has been observed for over 350 years.
Fact 03
Research & publications
Jump straight into peer-reviewed papers, preprints and authoritative references for Jupiter.
arXiv (preprints)
Open-access preprints in physics & astrophysics.
NASA ADS
The definitive bibliographic database for astronomy.
Google Scholar
Cross-publisher academic search.
Nature
Peer-reviewed articles in Nature & sister journals.
Wikipedia
Encyclopedic overview & onward references.
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