It’s crazy. If it could be seen with the naked eye it would be 2-3 times the size of the sun in the sky. It’s so vast it actually starts to reach solar winds into Saturns orbit. That’s right. It’s so fucking ridiculous that its effects reach into the orbit of the next planet. Now there’s a lot of speculation as to how this has happened but I believe the most prominent theory is that Jupiters core contains metallic hydrogen. That is, hydrogen that is so compressed it actually forms a solid metal. We have created this in labs before and it’s stupid hard. They literally tried compressing hydrogen using diamonds and it would shatter the diamonds before the hydrogen atoms would compress enough to form a solid. So they had to use a different gem (ruby I think) that they vibrated at a certain frequency. So basically as these gems vibrated with the hydrogen in-between them as specific points in the vibration the hydrogen was compressed JUST enough to act as if it was a solid metal. The first time this happened they had several instruments set up to measure the minute magnetic field that would be created (they used a VERY small amount of hydrogen atoms). Well the field was so strong it blew all the sensors. So based on what we know, the only thing we can think of that would be able to generate a magnetic field this strong would be a bunch of solid metal hydrogen.
Also Jupiter is so massive that the Sun and Jupiter actually or it each other. It’s called the Barycenter and it’s a spot of empty space a bit outside of the Sun.
Jupiter is also the reason we have an asteroid belt. See, where the asteroid belt is there SHOULD be a planet. But none can form because Jupiters gravity is so strong it constantly prevents any one object from being able to coalesce into a planet by attracting and absorbing the rest of the asteroids.
I mean, earth is pretty special with the whole “life” thing it has going on, at least for the time being.
Saturn is probably my second because it’s just got a lot of neat shit going on I mentioned in another comments.
I would however like to mention something that’s also super interesting to me and it’s that the largest “object” in the solar system isn’t the Sun. It’s Jupiters magnetosphere. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/11663/jupiters-magnetosphere/
It’s crazy. If it could be seen with the naked eye it would be 2-3 times the size of the sun in the sky. It’s so vast it actually starts to reach solar winds into Saturns orbit. That’s right. It’s so fucking ridiculous that its effects reach into the orbit of the next planet. Now there’s a lot of speculation as to how this has happened but I believe the most prominent theory is that Jupiters core contains metallic hydrogen. That is, hydrogen that is so compressed it actually forms a solid metal. We have created this in labs before and it’s stupid hard. They literally tried compressing hydrogen using diamonds and it would shatter the diamonds before the hydrogen atoms would compress enough to form a solid. So they had to use a different gem (ruby I think) that they vibrated at a certain frequency. So basically as these gems vibrated with the hydrogen in-between them as specific points in the vibration the hydrogen was compressed JUST enough to act as if it was a solid metal. The first time this happened they had several instruments set up to measure the minute magnetic field that would be created (they used a VERY small amount of hydrogen atoms). Well the field was so strong it blew all the sensors. So based on what we know, the only thing we can think of that would be able to generate a magnetic field this strong would be a bunch of solid metal hydrogen.
Also Jupiter is so massive that the Sun and Jupiter actually or it each other. It’s called the Barycenter and it’s a spot of empty space a bit outside of the Sun.
Jupiter is also the reason we have an asteroid belt. See, where the asteroid belt is there SHOULD be a planet. But none can form because Jupiters gravity is so strong it constantly prevents any one object from being able to coalesce into a planet by attracting and absorbing the rest of the asteroids.