Tagged: Jupiter

Surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa churned by small impacts

Jupiter’s moon Europa and its global ocean may currently have conditions suitable for life. Scientists are studying processes on the icy surface as they prepare to explore. It’s easy to see the impact of space debris on our Moon, where the ancient, battered surface is...

Striped Brown Dwarf Looks A Lot Like Jupiter

Recently, we showed you a cool new direct image taken of a brown dwarf, an object midway in mass between a planet and a star. But that image doesn’t show the brown dwarf’s surface features. No existing image does. These objects are too far away...

Juno Finds A New Auroral Feature On Jupiter

NASA said: “In this Hubble telescope picture, a curtain of glowing gas is wrapped around Jupiter’s north pole like a lasso. This curtain of light, called an aurora, is produced when high-energy electrons race along the planet’s magnetic field and into the upper atmosphere where...

Is Jupiter A Key To Finding Dark Matter?

Two astrophysicists said on April 5, 2021, that Jupiter might serve as an ideal detector in the hunt for dark matter, the elusive and mysterious substance thought to make up a substantial fraction of our universe. Stanford University’s Rebecca Leane and Stockholm University’s Tim Linden...

Image: Jupiter antenna that came in from the cold

An instrument destined for Jupiter orbit is checked after completing eight days of cryogenic radio-frequency testing at ESA’s ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands. The Sub-millimeter Wave Instrument of ESA’s Juice mission will survey the churning atmosphere of Jupiter and the scanty atmospheres of its...

Wow! Stunning New Images Reveal Jupiter’s Chaotic Atmosphere

With its multicolored bands of swirling clouds, Jupiter is one of the most beautiful sights in the solar system. Spacecraft – including NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently orbiting the giant planet – have sent back jaw-dropping views of this world. This month (May 11, 2021), scientists...

Juno returns to ‘Clyde’s Spot’ on Jupiter

During its 33rd low pass over the cloud tops of Jupiter on April 15, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the intriguing evolution of a feature in the giant planet’s atmosphere known as “Clyde’s Spot.” The feature is informally named for amateur astronomer Clyde Foster of...

Astronomers discover four new ‘hot Jupiters’

An international team of astronomers has detected four new “hot Jupiter” exoplanets as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The newly found alien worlds are at least 10% larger than Jupiter but less massive than the solar system’s biggest planet. The finding is...