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Jupiter
Planet · Fifth planet from the Sun
About Jupiter
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Jupiter was 5.21 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 43.3 minutes to reach it.
It goes round the Sun once every 11.9 years, at an average distance of 5.203 AU.
It is about 139,800 km across.
The map lists it as a planet and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Semi-major axis | 5.203 AU |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 11.9 years |
| Eccentricity | 0.0482 |
| Inclination | 1.30° |
| Mass | 1.9 × 10²⁷ kg |
| Radius | 69,911.0 km |
| Day length | 9.9 h |
| Mean temperature | −110 °C (1 bar) |
| Distance from the Sun | 5.21 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Jupiter's orbit, a view about 14 AU across.
From Wikipedia
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass nearly 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Jupiter, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.