Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation. Now, scientists have come up with one to explain the strange compositional ...
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WASHINGTON — Scientists studying Jupiter's weather for nearly 40 years made some unexpected and slightly mysterious discoveries about how temperatures in the planet's different belts and zones ...
The weather on Jupiter—much like that on Earth—not just by the chaos going on inside the atmosphere but also by external forces including space weather driven by the Sun. In a study published last ...
Jupiter is about to dominate the midwinter sky, turning January evenings into a showcase for the biggest planet in the solar system. As Earth lines up almost perfectly with Jupiter and the sun, the ...
His models suggest that one in particular, HD 189733b — a Jupiter-sized planet 63 light-years away from Earth — may produce extreme weather. By using computer models and data from NASA's Spitzer Space ...
Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and gas planets like them orbiting other stars? A new study using ...