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.

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

Jupiter has the brightest auroras in the solar system, and the images reveal the auroral emissions from ionized hydrogen as a high-altitude haze above the planet’s north and south poles.

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 ...

Images captured by two different telescopes are showing our solar system's largest planet in a new light. Posted 2021-05-11T19:46:14+00:00 - Updated 2021-05-11T19:44:47+00:00 ...

This year, the planet's opposition will mark Jupiter's closest approach to Earth in 59 years. It will be 367 million miles (591 million kilometers) away, the closest its been to Earth since 1963.

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 ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik.

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.