{"id":1527174,"date":"2022-06-23T17:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527174"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T21:05:08","slug":"scientists-believe-jupiter-is-huge-because-it-ate-other-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientists-believe-jupiter-is-huge-because-it-ate-other-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Believe Jupiter Is Huge Because It Ate Other Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscientists-believe-jupiter-is-huge-because-it-ate-other-planets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1527174&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A new scientific study on the planet of Jupiter claims it is our solar system\u2019s largest planet in part due to eating other planets.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/articles\/aa\/full_html\/2022\/06\/aa43207-22\/aa43207-22.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> published in Astronomy and Astrophysics is suggesting the theory that the giant gas planet is fillet with a number of baby planets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJupiter was one of the first planets to form in our solar system,\u201d Yamila Miguel, an astrophysicist at Leiden University in the Netherlands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/jupiter-ate-baby-planets-while-growing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Live Science. However, little is known about how it was formed.<\/p>\n<p>In the new research article, images from NASA\u2019s Juno space probe allowed the team members on the project to map out the rocky core of Jupiter. \u201cThe chemical make-up suggests Jupiter devoured baby planets, or planetesimals, to fuel its expansive growth,\u201d according to Live Science.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel also noted that Juno\u2019s data allowed the researchers to gather the new data necessary to accurately measure Jupiter\u2019s interior, which served as a critical aspect of the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuno provided very accurate gravity data that helped us to constrain the distribution of the material in Jupiter\u2019s interior,\u201d Miguel said.\u00a0\u201cIt is very unique data that we can only get with a spacecraft orbiting around the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The view is among two major theories regarding how Jupiter collected its initial rocky core. One theory suggests the planet is composed of billions of smaller space rocks.<\/p>\n<p>The other theory, supported in the new study, claims the planet\u2019s core was formed by absorbing multiple \u201cplanetesimals\u201d spanning several miles in size. The research concluded, \u201cOur results imply that Jupiter continued to accrete heavy elements in large amounts while its hydrogen-helium envelope was growing, contrary to predictions based on the pebble-isolation mass in its simplest incarnation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study hopes to provide a deeper understanding of Jupiter\u2019s formation, as well as offer insights into how other planets beyond the red giant, such as Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, developed.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter, at about 484 million miles from the Earth, remains an intriguing point of exploration. In addition to NASA\u2019s Juno exploration, a growing emphasis on both Mars and Jupiter has become a focus of the emerging space industry.<\/p>\n<p>The research regarding Jupiter has also continued to advance as the planet has been photographed and explored. Last July, NASA selected SpaceX to study whether Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa has conditions that could potentially support life.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-the-europa-clipper-mission\">Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a>, the mission will mark the first \u201cdetailed investigations\u201d of the large Jupiter moon.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NASA has selected Falcon Heavy to fly Europa Clipper! Launching in October 2024, this interplanetary mission will study whether Jupiter&#8217;s icy moon Europa could have conditions suitable for life. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KJt7Natn7i\">https:\/\/t.co\/KJt7Natn7i<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sfcdrcKE77\">pic.twitter.com\/sfcdrcKE77<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1418667693016711170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nasa-gives-spacex-178-million-to-launch-jupiter-moon-expedition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/vehicles\/falcon-heavy\/\">SpaceX<\/a>, Falcon Heavy is \u201cthe most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two.\u201d It can lift payloads of nearly 141,000 pounds into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle\u2019s core booster and two side boosters contain a combined twenty-seven Merlin engines, which can generate more than five million pounds of thrust at takeoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new scientific study on the planet of Jupiter claims it is our solar system\u2019s largest planet in part due to eating other planets. A new study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics is suggesting the theory that the giant gas planet is fillet with a number of baby planets. \u201cJupiter was one of the first &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1527250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}