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Witness the spectacular and destructive consequences of a collision between the solar system's two largest planets.
Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else.
NASA's Juno revealed mushballs on Jupiter, reshaping our understanding of deep, violent gas giant storm systems.
Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.
Jupiter's diameter is 11 times larger than ... Solar bursts could significantly alter big planets' upper atmospheric dynamics, generating global winds that drive energy distribution across the ...
However, the new findings challenge that assumption, revealing that even the solar system's largest planet is at the sun's mercy. "We've studied Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus in increasing detail ...
The collision left inky scars in the planet’s atmosphere that persisted for months, with the largest welts visible ... impacts on Jupiter. About a dozen such events are known to date ...
Jupiter is our solar system's largest planet. The two brown dwarfs are gravitationally bound and orbit near to each other - as close as just 4% of the distance between Earth and the sun.