Jupiter's auroras were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, ...

Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...

"Our experiments provide clues to better understand JWST Europa observations and serve as a prelude to upcoming close-range investigations by Europa Clipper and ESA's JUICE spacecraft." ...

Europa Clipper captures Mars in infrared on way to Jupiter moon. In other Jupiter-related news, a robotic spacecraft on its way to study another Jovian moon recently made a pitstop at Mars.

Because infrared light gets trapped by thick clouds, the infrared images of the planet create a jack-o-lantern effect, as seen above: Jupiter’s atmosphere glows bright in thin haze and light ...

On Jupiter, the cation has been suggested as a possible dark matter detector, but in this study, it was used as a proxy for the aurorae variability. It turns out that they change faster than ...

Home / VLT Captures Stunning Infrared Images of Jupiter. Posted in Press Release VLT Captures Stunning Infrared Images of Jupiter by SpaceRef June 27, 2016 July 15, 2024.

Jupiter’s Equatorial Zone and Great Red Spot stand out in this infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope because their high-altitude hazes reflect sunlight well.

Juno arrived at the Jupiter system in 2016, but a failed thruster meant that it is now stuck in a wide, polar orbit that brings it close to Jupiter and its moons every 53 days. Still, during those ...

It exemplifies the potential of finding many more such planets similar to Jupiter in mass, ... A temperate super-Jupiter imaged with JWST in the mid-infrared. Nature, 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024 ...

Data captured Dec. 25, 2023, with Webb’s s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, was recently analyzed by a team of scientists led by Jonathan Nichols, an astronomer at the University of Leicester in ...