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The ancient Romans once said Jupiter was god of the sky. So it's perhaps no surprise that the largest planet in our solar system is kind of hard to see in its entirety. Sitting more than 365 ...
"Jupiter's rotation once every 10 hours usually blurs radio maps, because these maps take many hours to observe," says co-author Robert Sault of the University of Melbourne in Australia.
An astronomer's map of a heat wave on Jupiter helped solve the planet's "energy crisis" mystery.; Solar plasma triggered an aurora at Jupiter's north pole, which sent a heat wave spilling down the ...
Io, the innermost of Jupiter's four largest moons, is slightly bigger than Earth's moon.Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, bursting with plumes that rise up to more than ...
Flat map of Jupiter in radio waves with ALMA (top) and visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope (bottom). The eruption in the South Equatorial Belt is visible in both images.
A long-awaited mission to an icy moon of Jupiter is on track to launch in just a few weeks, NASA officials said Tuesday in an event previewing the launch. The moon, Europa, is thought to have ...
The first ever 3D radiation map of Jupiter and its moons has been created using low-light cameras aboard the Juno Spacecraft that have been tweaked to operate as radiation detectors.