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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it ...
New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.
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After 50 years of assumptions, fresh data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter, ...
Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers make most precise measurement to date, say ...
“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 ...
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