Uranus is an ice giant that rotates tipped over on its side, with its spin axis tilted by about 98 degrees. That extreme tilt makes its seasons unlike any other planet’s, leaving each pole pointed toward the Sun for decades at a time during its 84-year orbit.
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Jupiter is about 2.8 times Uranus’s diameter, separating the largest gas giant from the smaller ice giants.
The names describe composition as well as size: Jupiter is dominated by hydrogen and helium, while Uranus contains a larger fraction of heavier volatile-rich material.
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, with about 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets combined. It spins once in just under 10 hours, the shortest day of any planet.
Visual creditJuno 2019 / NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Kevin M. Gill / Public domainSource: Wikimedia Commons
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Scale of Space is a scroll-based journey through the universe, placing objects on a single logarithmic scale so you can compare size across an unbroken range.
Guides explain selected parts of that range, while focused views filter the objects by subject.