Jupiter Probably Ate a Bunch of Cool Planets

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest one in our Solar System. Jupiter's huge volume would hold more than 1,300 Earths. Just imagine: if Jupiter was a basketball, our planet would be around the size of a cherry. How did the gas giant get so massive? Some of the new discoveries suggest that Jupiter reached its size by "eating" smaller planets close to it... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices