Jupiter's slimmer profile: Giant planet revealed to be narrower at equator

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revised that knowledge using new data and ...
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Jupiter is not the size and shape we've long thought it was

The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just ...
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Bizarre chaos erupts on Jupiter as scientists say it’s no longer acting like a normal planet

Jupiter, long treated as the solar system’s fixed point of planetary normalcy, has just been knocked off that pedestal. New ...

Is Jupiter smaller than we thought? NASA spacecraft makes new find

New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.

Weizmann Institue, NASA discover Jupiter is smaller and flatter than previously believed

“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...

Why Scientists Are Still Figuring Out the Size and Shape of Jupiter

The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about ...
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Farewell to the Jupiter of textbooks—the Juno probe reveals a smaller, flatter planet—and NASA prepares for changes

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...
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Jupiter Is Smaller and Flatter Than Believed, NASA’s Juno Data Reveals

New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.

Scientists discover Jupiter is smaller than previously thought: “The textbooks will need updating”

New measurements from the Juno probe show that the largest planet in the solar system is slightly smaller and flatter than ...

The shocking revelation about Jupiter’s true appearance: ‘Textbooks will need to be updated’

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
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Giant falls short: Juno finds Jupiter thinner at equator than previously thought

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
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Jupiter’s clouds are hiding something big

Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds. Researchers found the planet likely holds significantly more oxygen than the ...