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From Jupiter to Mercury: the brightest planets of February 2026
From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...
For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...
Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large – by ...
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
"Textbooks will need to be updated," study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds Jupiter’s diameter slightly smaller than old estimates, providing precise data on the gas ...
The Juno observations showed that Jupiter has an equatorial diameter of 88,841 miles (142,976 km), which is about 5 miles (8 ...
After 50 years of assumptions, fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter, ...
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Giant falls short: Juno finds Jupiter thinner at equator than previously thought
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.
The solar system’s most giant planet is slightly less of a giant than scientists once thought. Jupiter, a planet so huge it could hold 1,000 Earths, is 8 kilometers less wide at its equator and 24 ...
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