Is Jupiter’s equatorial diameter larger than the Sun’s diameter?

Jupiter is the giant of the solar system’s planets, more than eleven times as wide as Earth, and some people wonder whether it might rival the Sun in size. It does not come close. Across its equator Jupiter measures about 142,984 km; the Sun is about 1,392,000 km wide, nearly ten times as much. Put about ten Jupiters side by side and they would only just span the Sun. Being the largest planet and being the largest object in the solar system are different titles: the Sun is a star, in a different class altogether. Because volume grows with the cube of width, the Sun’s volume is more than 900 times Jupiter’s. This duel compares diameters only, not mass or how large each looks in the sky.