







Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. The giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.








Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. The giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.
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