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Jupiter and Saturn have always been some of the coolest-looking and intriguing planets to laypeople – and now, scientists are coming through with some new information for us. The data come from ...
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Explore the amazing discovery of Jupiter’s swirling dark vortices and their connection to its powerful magnetic field and ...
Jupiter's rings may not be as pronounced as Saturn's, but its ring system still extends to an impressive 140,000 miles away from the giant gas planet. This video shows the first inside peak of ...
Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths could fit inside. Its Great Red ...
A magnetometer, with the help of star imagers, will create a three-dimensional map of Jupiter’s magnetic field—so large that the sun could fit inside and 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s.
A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.
“We are reproducing the conditions inside the planets,” says physicist ... about 11,000 kilometers below the cloud tops of Jupiter, down to a depth of about 22,000 kilometers.