Tag: Jupiter
Astronomers Provide ‘Field Guide’ to Exoplanets Known as Hot Jupiters
Astronomers Provide 'Field Guide' to Exoplanets Known as Hot Jupiters
By combining Hubble Space Telescope observations with theoretical models, a team of astronomers...
Ride with Juno as it flies past the solar system’s biggest...
The probe flew closer to Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of both the...
Scientists solve 40-year mystery over Jupiter’s X-ray aurora
Have you seen Jupiter's aurora? Researchers combined close-up observations of Jupiter's environment by NASA's satellite Juno, which is currently orbiting the planet, with simultaneous...
Jupiter’s north pole unlike anything encountered in solar system
Storm systems and weather activity unlike anything encountered in the solar system are on view in these color images of Jupiter's north polar region...
Jupiter’s great red spot heats planet’s upper atmosphere
Turbulent atmospheric flows above the storm produce both gravity waves and acoustic waves. Gravity waves are much like how a guitar string moves when...
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View
This color view from NASA's Juno spacecraft is made from some of the first images taken by JunoCam after the spacecraft entered orbit around...
Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere
This image combines an image taken with Hubble Space Telescope in the optical (taken in spring 2014) and observat ions of its auroras in...
Glorious, glowing Jupiter awaits Juno’s arrival
In preparation for the imminent arrival of NASA's Juno spacecraft in July 2016, astronomers used ESO's Very Large Telescope to obtain spectacular new infrared...
Newborn giant planet grazes its star
The youngest known hot Jupiter, detected around the star in formation V830 Tau, travels through the star's magnetic web (white and blue lines), making...
New radio map of Jupiter reveals what’s beneath colorful clouds
The VLA radio map of the region around the Great Red Spot in Jupiter's atmosphere shows complex upwellings and downwellings of ammonia gas (upper...
Europa’s Ocean May Have An Earthlike Chemical Balance
This enhanced-color view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/...
