Your Guide to Jupiter

What’s under Jupiter’s beautiful clouds?

When Jupiter formed, it likely had a large, rock-and-metal core. But as the planet gobbled up leftover gases from the solar system’s formation, intense pressures may have dissolved the core into an exotic substance called metallic hydrogen. The most recent data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft suggests there is no distinct core.

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