A research team co-led by UCL has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular …
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Powerful Stratospheric Winds Measured on Jupiter for the First Time
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesJupiter is famous for its distinctive red and white bands — swirling clouds of moving gas that astronomers …
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Serendipitous Juno Detections Shatter Ideas About the Origin of Zodiacal Light
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesData from NASA spacecraft Juno‘s journey to Jupiter suggests that Mars may be shedding dust into interplanetary space. …
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On Feb. 22, 1906, German astrophotographer Max Wolf helped reshape our understanding of the solar system by discovering …
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After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets …
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On Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, powerful eruptions may spew into space, raising questions among hopeful astrobiologists on Earth: …
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This latest image of Jupiter’s storms, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on Aug. 25, 2020, was captured …
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Webb Telescope Will Study Jupiter, Its Rings, and 2 Intriguing Moons
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesJupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system …
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Though it looks like it to us, clouds on Jupiter do not form a flat surface. Some of …