How to distinguish Jupiter and the moon in the night sky

Seeing Jupiter in the east after nightfall can be said to be the brightest star in the sky at this time, with an apparent magnitude of about -2.63 and running in Aries. As time goes on, Jupiter will rise higher and higher.

And the moon is the biggest round thing seen in the sky the day after night, and the latter has a circular edge. To the naked eye, the moon is much bigger than Jupiter.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all gaseous planets, so they are also collectively called woody planets (Jupiter and Saturn are collectively called gaseous giants). Jupiter is a giant gas planet, mainly composed of hydrogen, followed by helium, accounting for 25% of the total mass and 70% of all planets in the solar system. The core contains other heavy elements. What humans usually see is the cloud top in the atmosphere, and the air pressure is slightly higher than 1 atmospheric pressure.

Jupiter is a flat sphere (with a slight but obvious bulge near the equator) because it rotates very fast. The outer atmosphere is obviously divided into several regions according to latitude, and turbulence and storms are easy to appear at the edge of regional connection. The most prominent example is the Great Red Spot, which was first discovered by telescope in the17th century. Surrounding this planet is a loose planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. Jupiter has at least 79 moons.