Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...

After the images were released, astronaut Chris Hadfield weighed in on Twitter with a simple comment capturing many space lovers’ reaction to the images: “Jupiter, as the [Webb] telescope sees it. So ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

shows that simple tools are sufficient to provide evidence. Amateur astronomer Steven Hill, based in Colorado, used commercial telescopes and color filters to map ammonia in Jupiter's atmosphere.

The telescope began as a relatively simple device, born out of optical ... Additionally, Galileo observed Jupiter and noted the presence of a few background stars arranged in a line.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into ... These bodies with masses between 13 and 75 times the mass of Jupiter (or 1.3% to 7.5% the mass of the sun) are, therefore, much ...

A high temperature band the size of multiple Earths has been captured on Jupiter for the first time. Scientists believe the heat was due to solar winds squeezing the magnetic field, and this may ...

"This is the first time we've ever seen a thing like this on any outer world." A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon ... strong evidence that the system's four giant planets formed in much the same way as Jupiter and Saturn, by slowly ...

Perrin (STScI) NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has captured direct images ... the galaxy formed in a similar way to our local giants, Jupiter and Saturn. The team’s analysis of the Webb imagery ...