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Solar system · Planet

Planet

Jupiter

The king of the planets: more than twice the mass of all the others combined, with four moons you can see in binoculars.

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Discovery

Galileo found the four big moons in January 1610 — the first things seen to orbit something other than the Earth.

Look for

Hold binoculars steady and look for up to four tiny points in a line beside it. They change places from night to night.

The rest of the solar system

All solar system · Field guide · Open the sky map

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