Who discovered Jupiter: Interesting Facts about Jupiter

Who discovered Jupiter? Galileo, the foremost ancient astronomer identified Jupiter and three of its moons in January 7, 1610. A few nights later, Simon Marius saw the moons of Jupiter and opted to name them after the sons and daughters of Greek gods namely Io, Europa, Gannymede and Callisto. But instead of lauding the discovery of Marius, he was ridiculed by the followers of Galileo and later vilified for his works. Many other moons were discovered orbiting the planet and the 14th was discovered by astronomer Charles T Kowal on October 1975.

Jupiter is a gas giant whose composition is 99.9 percent of the mass in the Solar System. Jupiter is the largest planet circling the sun and is located fifth from the sun. Jupiter is said to have a core of rock or ice at the center surrounded by oceans of liquid hydrogen and helium. Above this is an atmosphere of liquid hydrogen and helium. Its foremost feature is its Great Red Spot that is theorized to be a huge storm in the atmosphere and has been causing havoc on the planet for over 300 years now.