Jupiter

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King of planets. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, with a diameter 11 times wider than Earth.

Super heavy. Jupiter weighs nearly 2.5 times as much as all the other planets in the Solar System combined!

A giant gas ball. It's called a gas giant because it's made mostly of gas instead of solid rock like Earth.

Bright in the sky. It's the third-brightest natural object in the night sky, after the Moon and Venus, and people have seen it since prehistoric times.

Long, slow year. Jupiter takes almost 12 Earth years to travel once around the Sun.