Stunning Jupiter images show biggest planet has a lot going on Learn more The world’s newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all.

“We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all quite incredible,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.

When astronomer and inventor Galileo trained his new invention, the telescope, upon Jupiter in 1610 and started tracking the movements of four little white dots around the planet, he realized he ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back stunning photos of Jupiter, including colorful, chaotic storms swirling through the ...

Images of the area of the microlensing event, indicated by perpendicular white lines, years before the event (a), shortly after peak magnification of the background star in 2020 (b) and in 2023 ...

If confirmed, this would be the first case of astronomers seeing a planet being consumed by the white dwarf at the center of a planetary nebula. Catch more space drama with a newly announced third ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new cold "super Jupiter" exoplanet, marking the closest of its kind ever found to us. The new planet, named Eps Ind Ab, orbits a star called Epsilon Indi A ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet in our solar system. It used to be known as the planet with the second-most moons with 80, trailing only Saturn with 83.

Jupiter is our solar system's biggest planet by far. It used to be twice as large: Study A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow ...

A Distant White Dwarf Is Eating a Jupiter-Sized Planet for Lunch. Cassidy Ward. Fri, March 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM UTC. ... X-ray echoes show a white dwarf eating a planet in the Helix Nebula.