Jupiter Rules Over the Solar System, Here’s Why

 

Jupiter Rules Over the Solar System, Here’s Why



Jupiter is so big that 11 Earths could fit across its equator. If our planet was the size of a grape, Jupiter would be a basketball! When Jupiter is hungry, it gobbles up comets, asteroids, and whatnot. When it's bored, it hurtles everything it manages to capture on wayward trajectories. This gas giant must have caused a lot of destruction over the course of its life – which is around 4.5 billion years. What other secrets does it have? Credit: NASA/JPL NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / Justin Cowart NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute NASA, ESA, W. Sparks (STScI), and the USGS Astrogeology Science Center NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Image processing by Judy Schmidt NASA, ESA & John T. Clarke (Univ. of Michigan) X-ray: NASA/CXC/SwRI/R.Gladstone et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (AURA/STScI) NASA/JPL NASA X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSFC/R.Elsner et al.; Illustration: CXC/M.Weiss CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/: Kevin Gill: Jupiter, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jupiter_-_Great_Red_Spot_-_PJ7-60_61_62_-_Balanced_(49803032983).png Great Red Spot, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jupiter%27s_Great_Red_Spot_-_July_8_1979_(26008230898).jpg Jupiter, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jupiter_-_PJ17-35_-_Detail.png CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/: Linear Eso0026a: ESO, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Break-up_of_comet_Linear_Eso0026a.tif Great Cold Spot: ESO/T. Stallard, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Cold_Spot_discovered_on_Jupiter.jpg Astronomy, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomy;_Galileo_with_his_telescope_in_the_Piazza_San_Marc_Wellcome_V0024831.jpg #brightside Animation is created by Bright Side. —————————————————————————————- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz —————————————————————————————- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru —————————————————————————————- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me

More Jupiter Rules Over the Solar System, Here’s Why Videos

Leave a Reply