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 ...

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

The enormous display recently documented in infrared by Webb – and compared to ultraviolet data from the Hubble Space Telescope – has raised unexpected questions about Jupiter's extreme ...

These infrared images of Jupiter with color added were obtained by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in 2016 and contributed to the new study.

"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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...