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Jupiter is known for its stormy weather, featuring cyclones, anticyclones, large storms, and ammonia-rich plumes that engulf the planet. The planet’s atmosphere is primarily made of hydrogen and ...
Jupiter’s striking size, swirling gases, and dramatic bands in its atmosphere set it apart from every other planet. One of ...
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky ...
Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...
Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
In February, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Mercury lined up in the night sky in a rare planet ...