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Did You Know ? Useful Kitchen Tricks Jupiter Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System . It is the fifth planet from the Sun . Jupiter is a gas giant , both because it is so large and made up of gas . The other gas giants are Saturn , Uranus , and Neptune . Jupiter has a mass of 1.8986×10 27 kg , or about 318 Earths. This is twice the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System put together. Jupiter can be seen even without the use of telescope . It was known to the ancient Romans , who named it after their god Jupiter ( Latin : Iuppiter ). Jupiter is the third brightest object in the night sky. Only the Earth's moon and Venus are brighter. Jupiter has at least 79 moons . Of these, around 50 are very small and less than five kilometres wide. The four largest moons of Jupiter are Io , Europa ,...