By Duncan Geere, Wired UK

Think climate change is bad? Things are rather worse in the outer solar system. Jupiter’s rocky central core may well be dissolving into liquid.

The gas giant, which is twice as massive as all of the other planets orbiting the Sun put together, has a central core comprised of iron, rock and ice. It sits in the center of the planet, submerged in a fluid of hydrogen and helium under intense pressures about 40 million times greater than atmospheric pressure on Earth, and temperatures around 16,000 degrees kelvin — hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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If you’re still waiting for winter to arrive, Google can help. The search engine might not be able to bring you a white Christmas outside, but it can at least add some snow to your web browser. A recently uncovered Easter Egg uses JavaScript to bury your search results under a fresh coat of snowy pixels.

To see the hidden feature just head to Google.com and search for the phrase “let it snow.” Provided your browser is up to the task — the latest versions of Chrome, IE, Safari and Firefox should all work — the search results page will begin to fill up ...