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- Largest planet in the solar system
- Name comes from the Roman King of the gods - JOVE.
- Fourth brightest object in the sky after the Sun, Moon and Venus.
- Galileo discovered the four large moons Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede and now known as the Galilean moons. Jupiter has 16 moons in total.
- 318 times larger than the earth
- Like Saturn, Jupiter has three rings