Image of Jupiter - 1 sec. exposure at f/10 prime focus with 2x Barlow (f/20)
Jupiter is 142,984 km diameter and 22.388 times the size of the Earth.
It's gravity is 2.54 times that of Earth's gravity. It would take 1000
Earth's to fill the volume area of Jupiter. As a comparison, Earth could
easily fit inside the Great Red Spot visible on the image below.
Processed by MaxIm DL using MaxEnt.


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