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Witness the spectacular and destructive consequences of a collision between the solar system's two largest planets.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...
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 ...
The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...
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 ...
It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can leave a noticeable mark in the planet's atmosphere. A recent study tapped into data collected by the Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft Juno and 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 ...
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.