• Question: how much times can jupiter fit into the sun

    Asked by 954tund46 to Hussain on 11 Nov 2015.
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      Hussain Jaffery answered on 11 Nov 2015:

      The volume, or the space that the Sun takes up, is 1.41 billion billion kilometres (cubed), or 1.3 million Earths.

      The volume of Jupiter is 1.43 million billion kilometres (cubed), or 1321.3 Earths.

      If you divide the volume of the Sun, by the volume of Jupiter, you end up with the answer: approximately 1000.

      Thus, about 1000 Jupiters can fit inside the space of the Sun! But this doesn’t mean they have the same mass, or the same amount of stuff in them – that’s another question!

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