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	[[File:Jupiter and its shrunken Great Red Spot.jpg\|Full-disc view of Jupiter in natural color in April 2014 (Wikipedia)]]		[[File:Jupiter and its shrunken Great Red Spot.jpg\|thumb\|Full-disc view of Jupiter in natural color in April 2014 (Wikipedia)]]
	Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants; the other two giant planets, Uranus and Neptune are ice giants. Jupiter has been known to astronomers since antiquity.The Romans named it after their god Jupiter.		Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants; the other two giant planets, Uranus and Neptune are ice giants. Jupiter has been known to astronomers since antiquity.The Romans named it after their god Jupiter.