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Jupiter (ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) The fifth planet from the sun and the largest in the solar system, Jupiter is the third brightest object in our night sky, after the moon and ...

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Even a local politician posted a video which I can tell you with 100% certainty is the constellation of Orion, the planet Jupiter and the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius. People who are ...

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