Jupiter

Jupiter is a planet and is the fifth planet in the solar system. It measures 142,984 km being the largest planet. It is part of the so-called outer or gaseous planets. It is named after the Roman god Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology). Take fifty million (750 million) kilometers from the Sun and six hundred and sixty million (660 million) kilometers. Its color depends on the clouds that make up its atmosphere, from space we can see two bands of orange and white. Jupiter is that it has the shortest day in the solar system - it only takes nine hours and fifty-five minutes to turn around and makes Jupiter slightly flattened in shape. Galileo discovered them in 1610 (1610) using a telescope that he made. Observed from Earth, it is the second-brightest planet in the sky, after Venus. Jupiter's atmosphere is made up mostly of hydrogen and helium, just like the Sun.