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A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
While studying data from ESA's Solar Orbiter space mission, a research team has discovered a new type of solar wind that ...
A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...
A solar jet captured by the Solar Orbiter unleashed a mind-blowing 200,000-fold increase in a rare helium isotope, 3He – far ...
"The solar wind squished Jupiter's magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...
Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.
Research published by scientists in England found a 2017 solar event compressed Jupiter's magnetic field, setting off aurora at the poles and heating in the upper atmosphere that spread across the ...
How can the solar wind influence Jupiter’s massive magnetic field? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical ...
Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope has given an international team of astronomers fresh insight into ...
An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on ...
shaped by its own magnetic field. (Earth has one, too! In fact, life would not be possible without it.) "We have never captured Jupiter's response to solar wind before — and the way it changed ...