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For Jupiter, 'Textbooks Will Need to Be Updated'

did:plc:kpkcscbf2zshv7shqgqn45wn February 6, 2026
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Jupiter hasn't shrunk, but our best measurement of it just did. Using fresh data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists say the solar system's largest planet is slightly smaller and squatter than decades-old estimates suggested, reports Smithsonian Magazine . The revised dimensions, published in Nature Astronomy , trim roughly 15 miles off Jupiter's...

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