Jupiter's Core Isn't What We Thought: The Truth Behind the Gas Giant.

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Jupiter's core has been misleading us. Discover why the "giant impact" theory has become obsolete and what this means for our solar system and beyond. #Jupiter #Science #Astronomy

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00:00The Hidden Truth of Jupiter

00:01A discovery that changes everything for decades

00:05Scientists have tried to unravel the mysteries of Jupiter

00:08The largest planet in our solar system

00:11For a long time, one of the most popular theories

00:15Suggested that its core had formed after a colossal collision with another planet

00:20An event of such magnitude that it would have completely mixed its interior

00:24But now, new research has turned that idea on its head

00:28A study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

00:34Has revealed the true story behind Jupiter's core

00:37And it's much more gradual than previously thought

00:40The team of researchers discovered that Jupiter's core doesn't have a defined boundary

00:45But instead, mixes slowly with the surrounding gas layers

00:49This structure is known as a dilute core

00:52This finding was actually one of the first surprises given to us by NASA's Juno probe

00:59To test the impact theory, scientists from Durham University

01:03In collaboration with NASA and the University of Oslo

01:07Used advanced supercomputer simulations

01:10The results were conclusive

01:12None of the simulations, not even under the most extreme conditions

01:17Managed to produce a dilute core

01:19Instead, the dense material displaced by the impact would quickly resettle

01:24Creating a defined boundary, not the gradual transition we observe today

01:29As Dr. Thomas Sandnes, the study's lead author noted

01:33Such an impact would literally shake the planet to its core

01:37But not in the way needed to explain what we see today

01:41But the evidence doesn't stop there

01:43Recently, it has been discovered that Saturn, our other gas giant

01:48Also possesses a dilute core

01:51This data strengthens the idea that these structures are not the result of rare and catastrophic events

01:57But instead, form naturally during a planet's long and complex growth process

02:03This discovery not only rewrites our story about the planets in our solar system

02:08But also has profound implications for the formation of the thousands of Jupiter-sized exoplanets

02:14That have been found around other stars

02:16If dilute cores are the norm and not the exception

02:20It's likely that most, if not all

02:22All of these distant worlds have equally complex interiors

02:26It's fascinating how technology and simulations continue to refine our understanding of the universe

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