Jupiter's atmosphere has a strange composition, but it could be explained if the planet formed farther away from the sun than where it orbits today, a new study suggests.

Citations. K. Ohno and T. Ueda. Jupiter’s “cold” formation in the protosolar disk shadow.An explanation for the planet’s uniformly enriched atmosphere.Astronomy & Astrophysics.Vol. 651 ...

But Juno is not the first spacecraft to get an up-close view of meteors in Jupiter's atmosphere. It is the second long-term mission at Jupiter, following NASA's Galileo spacecraft which circled ...

Their results will help astronomers understand the data that NASA's Juno spacecraft will send back from Jupiter in 2016. On a rooftop in downtown Atlanta, a group of scientists are cooking up ...

Scientists discover water vapor in atmosphere of Jupiter’s largest moon This June 7, 2021 image made available by NASA shows the Jovian moon Ganymede as the Juno spacecraft flies by.

Classified as an "ultra-hot Jupiter," which is a massive planet that exists incredibly close to its star, the exoplanet is a twelfth of the distance from its star, WASP-76, than Mercury is to the sun.

Scientists image a bright meteoroid explosion in Jupiter's atmosphere. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 02 / 210222124535.htm ...

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'Hot Jupiter' Planet's Atmosphere Revealed by New Method The atmospheres of alien planets can now be probed even if they are not illuminated by stars directly behind them, astronomers say. June 27 ...