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Scientists using Juno report Jupiter is smaller than previously thought, enhancing understanding of its shape, interior ...

Dhaka, Feb. 5 -- New findings from NASA's Juno mission suggest that Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is slightly smaller and more flattened than scientists previously believed.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a massive gas giant made mostly of hydrogen and helium, the same elements that form stars.

Using high-precision radio-occultation measurements from NASA’s Juno mission and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, ...

New Juno data shows Jupiter is smaller and flatter than thought, forcing scientists to update models of the gas giant.

“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 ...

The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, when hearing about the invention of the telescope in 1608, decided to make his own ...

The event includes hands-on activities, a live planetarium show and, weather permitting, rooftop telescope viewing.

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.