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[[File: Jupiter.jpg|thumb|The symbol for Jupiter]] | [[File: Jupiter.jpg|thumb|The symbol for Jupiter]] | ||
'''Jupiter''' is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third-brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky after the [[Moon]] and [[Venus]]. People have been observing it since prehistoric times; it was named after the Roman god Jupiter, the king of the gods, because of its observed size. | '''Jupiter''' is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third-brightest natural object in the [[Earth]]'s night sky after the [[Moon]] and [[Venus]]. People have been observing it since prehistoric times; it was named after the Roman god Jupiter, the king of the gods, because of its observed size. | ||
==Astrology== | ==Astrology== | ||