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Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

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Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

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