NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, taken during the spacecraft’s first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on.

North vs. South: A Polar Mystery. The southern dark oval (SUDO) tends to pop up in the same place near Jupiter’s south pole, and it can grow to an enormous size, roughly as big as North America.

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground. A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us ...

An amateur astronomer in Australia saw something remarkable the other night: a hole the size of the Pacific Ocean near Jupiter's south pole, probably caused by a comet striking the planet.

One big finding is that Jupiter’s atmosphere extends 1,860 miles down from the cloud tops – much larger than expected – and at that depth, the planet’s composition is quite different.

Home / Surprisingly Erratic X-ray Auroras Discovered at Jupiter. Posted in Press Release Surprisingly Erratic X-ray Auroras Discovered at Jupiter by SpaceRef October 30, 2017 July 15, 2024.

At first approach, Jupiter’s magnetic field is very similar to Earth's but 20 times stronger. There is a dipole, which means that there is a north and a south, so the magnetic field lines ...