• Question: what is the biggest planet

    Asked by Nell to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      In our solar system the biggest planet is Jupiter – but in other systems, there are huge, Jupiter-like planets very close to their parent stars, which can be much bigger than anything in our solar system!

    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      @579frcc29 yes in other solar systems there are observations of “super-jupiters” – very large planets with masses of over 10 times that of jupiter!

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