Planet Size Comparison Chart Image credit: NASA/Wendy Stenzel Scientists using NASA’s Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single ...

The planet has a radius of 43,441 miles, meaning that it is 11 times the size of Earth. In fact, if Jupiter was a container you could fit 1,300 Earths inside it before it was filled.

The sixth planet is larger and farther out, with an orbital period of 118 days and an undetermined mass. Planet Size Comparison Chart Image credit: NASA/Wendy Stenzel ...

This world, CoRoT-7b (named after the European Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits satellite) has a radius 1.7 times that of Earth. The planet is just around 4.8 times Earth’s mass.