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    2 days ago

    So there is a solid-ish core it’s just liquid plasma?

    For all my youth I fantasized about what is under Jupiter’s clouds and always imagined it was a very dense metal.

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      1 day ago

      Ah article answered me in another thread. This is what they wrote:

      It’s more of a diffuse sludgeball of a core getting dissolved within the plasma. See figure 2 in this paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac7ec8
      These are current best fit models to the data which are still coming in from Juno. This new paradigm is our best understanding yet, but like anything in science, is capable of being overturned by later experiments and new data.
      There is a lot more that we don’t know about Jupiter than we do know.