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Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.
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The Daily Galaxy on MSNWhat Galileo Discovered Just Before Jupiter Swallowed It Whole
In a mission that changed our understanding of gas giants, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made history not just in orbit but also ...
The brief and sudden flash in Jupiter's upper atmosphere was spotted by NASA's Juno spacecraft in April 2020. But, while the burst of light didn't last long, it drew scientists' attention as its ...
Beneath its heavy cloud cover, Jupiter has been able to keep its secrets from astronomers. Now, first results from NASA’s Juno mission are challenging researchers’ beliefs about the gas… ...
NASA's recent photo of Jupiter taken during a recent flyby makes the planet's turbulent atmosphere look more like "The Starry Night" than one would expect. The image at the top of this article was ...
A pinch of hydrogen, a dash of water vapor, a touch of ammonia - all combine to make one of many likely scenarios on Jupiter. Scientists on Earth attempt to replicate the gas giant's atmosphere in ...
Classified as an "ultra-hot Jupiter," which is a massive planet that exists incredibly close to its star, the exoplanet is a twelfth of the distance from its star, WASP-76, than Mercury is to the sun.
Scientists at NASA are asking for the public’s help with identifying different types of storms and other meteorological phenomena that take place in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
The world is a " hot Jupiter " — a gas giant orbiting very close to its parent star. The exoplanet's parent star, Tau Boötis, is easily visible with the naked eye, but the planet is not.
Scientists discover water vapor in atmosphere of Jupiter’s largest moon This June 7, 2021 image made available by NASA shows the Jovian moon Ganymede as the Juno spacecraft flies by.
Detection of a bolide in Jupiter's atmosphere with Juno UVS. Geophysical Research Letters, 2021; DOI: 10.1029/2020GL091797 ...
The U.S. space agency reports that WASP-18b, "the hot Jupiter," is an oversized planet that has no water and a "smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide." A stratosphere is the layer of ...
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