stackyFACTSJupiter is the ultimate hoarder of the solar system, boasting an absurd collection of over ninety moons ranging from massive icy worlds to completely misshapen potatoes of rock. At this point, scientists are just finding stray asteroids caught in its orbit and throwing them onto the pile.
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Jupiter acts as a massive cosmic vacuum cleaner for the solar system, using its immense gravitational field to suck up or deflect dangerous asteroids and…
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Saturn is so remarkably un-dense that if you could find a bathtub large enough to hold it, the entire gas giant would actually float on top of the water.…
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The moon is perpetually giving us the cold shoulder by being tidally locked to our planet. It takes exactly the same amount of time to rotate once on its axis…
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