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Jupiter smaller than thought

Rob Beschizza
Feb 03, 2026
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The scientific literature was wrong. The school textbooks will have to be replaced. Entire careers were built on falsehoods. New measurements overturn almost 50 years of consensus about the size and shape of the planet Jupiter, the largest in our solar system, which we now know is sm…

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