An ancient planet, 10 times bigger than Earth, may have crashed into Jupiter

Jupiter is a gigantic ball of churning gas clouds, and that makes it hard to see what's in the middle. It's believed to be a relatively small, rocky core, but data from the Juno probe found that it's less dense and more spread out than expected. Now, astronomers believe they have an answer – a huge ancient planet, with 10 times the mass of Earth, crashed into the gas giant in the early days of the solar system.

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Category: Space

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• Astronomy
• China
• Collision
• Juno
• Jupiter
• Planet
• Rice University
• Solar System

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