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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.
"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.
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 ...
According to NASA, the decametric radio waves have frequencies between 10 and 40 MHz, but never above 40 MHz."Electrons spiraling in Jupiter's magnetic field are thought to be the cause of the ...
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 ...
The Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has discovered an FM radio signal coming from the moon Ganymede. The find is a first-time detection from the moon.
Related video above: Here’s Why Jupiter Never Became a StarA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter discovered an FM radio signal from Ganymede, one of the gas giant's moons. The discovery marks the first ...