Jupiter

Jupiter is the largest planet of the Solar System. It would fit more than 1,300 planets large as Earth into it. In the night sky, you can see a very bright yellowish-white point easily with a naked eye.



The planet is obscured with a huge atmosphere, divided into light and dark bands. They are visible in a small telescope. On detailed photographs from large telescopes and space probes the giant atmospheric swirls are evident - gigantic storms often larger than the entire planet Earth.



Jupiter and Saturn together belong among the so-called gas giants. These planets have no solid surface. Its atmosphere, composed mainly of gaseous hydrogen and helium, gradually thickens with depth and turns into a liquid mantle of molecular hydrogen. It then converts into the hot metal hydrogen which properties are very similar to the molten metal. The centre of the planet hides a very hot liquid iron-rock core.



Jupiter is surrounded also with a discreet ring system and more than 60 moons circulate around it. The biggest four moons are easily seen with opera glasses. Jupiter is the largest planet of the Solar System. It would fit more than 1,300 planets large as Earth into it. In the night sky, you can see a very bright yellowish-white point easily with a naked eye.



The planet is obscured with a huge atmosphere, divided into light and dark bands. They are visible in a small telescope. On detailed photographs from large telescopes and space probes the giant atmospheric swirls are evident - gigantic storms often larger than the entire planet Earth.



Jupiter and Saturn together belong among the so-called gas giants. These planets have no solid surface. Its atmosphere, composed mainly of gaseous hydrogen and helium, gradually thickens with depth and turns into a liquid mantle of molecular hydrogen. It then converts into the hot metal hydrogen which properties are very similar to the molten metal. The centre of the planet hides a very hot liquid iron-rock core.



Jupiter is surrounded also with a discreet ring system and more than 60 moons circulate around it. The biggest four moons are easily seen with opera glasses.