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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Lifestyle
Anna Catherine Martin

Jupiter grew so big by feasting on other planets and is almost 320 times the size of Earth

Jupiter is more than huge. To put it into perspective it is equivalent to 318 Earths or twice the size of all the rest of our solar system’s planets combined.

If that’s not scary enough to think about, scientists think they have worked out how the King of Planets got to be so big and it’s equally terrifying - it feasts on others.

That’s right, an article published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics says that Jupiter got to its size by eating other planets.

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