Astronomy on MSN

The Sky Today on Saturday, October 25: Two shadows on Jupiter's cloud tops

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. October 24: The Moon and Antares U.S. West Coast ...
Yahoo

An amateur astronomer used an old technique to study Jupiter — and found something strange

Scientists and amateur astronomers have teamed up to upend a long-held assumption that Jupiter's iconic swirling clouds are made of frozen ammonia — a pretty foundational revelation about the gas ...

NASA confirms its $1 billion Jupiter mission will cheat death for at least 3 more years

Though NASA's Juno spacecraft has probed Jupiter's secrets for nearly two years, the $1 billion mission was set to crash into the planet's clouds in July. Now, however, the agency has confirmed ...
Phys.org

Juno mission gets under Jupiter's and Io's surface

JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno, captured this enhanced-color view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the giant ...
Techno-Science.net on MSN

💥 Jupiter protected Earth even before its birth, reveals study

Jupiter's influence on our Solar System dates back to a time when Earth was still just a cloud of dust and gas. Long before ...

Jupiter’s Gravity May Explain a 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Mystery

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Five spooky Hallowe'en sights from the boundless depths of space

Just in time for Hallowe'en in 2024, Hubble and JWST captured an image of two interacting spiral galaxies — IC 2163 and NGC ...
Astronomy

Voyager left NASA ‘happily bewildered’ by what it saw at Jupiter

Like Earth, Jupiter generates a magnetic field, which at the cloud tops is about 15 times stronger than our planet’s. The field traps, stores, and controls the flow of charged particles inside it, ...
KTVU

NASA probe offers dramatic glimpses of Jupiter and its moon Ganymede

NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in the last two decades, according to NASA. The moon is the largest in our solar system. (FILE-A screenshot from the ...
AOL

Ammonia ‘mushballs’ could spark strange lightning on Jupiter

These storms are thought to contain a kind of water-ammonia hail ('mushballs') specific to Jupiter's atmosphere, which drags the ammonia down into the deep atmosphere and may explain the presence of ...
Nature

Jupiter's Atmosphere and Great Red Spot Dynamics

Jupiter’s atmosphere is a dynamic laboratory where complex interactions between rapid rotation, deep internal convection, and magnetic forces produce a rich tapestry of weather phenomena. Chief among ...
SETI

Planetary Picture of the Day

NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are the ...