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Magnetic tornadoes on Jupiter are spawning Earth-size storms
Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar ...
Great Red What? Check out Jupiter’s giant, magnetic tornado
The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles.
Magnetic tornado is stirring up the haze at Jupiter's poles
Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A UC ...
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Where did the universe's magnetic fields come from?
Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...
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Check Out the Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
Why Magnetism Likely Helped Create Order In Our Early Solar System
Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...
Europa Clipper: Millions of miles down, instruments deploying
NASA's Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter's moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million ...
Vast Oceans of Water May Be Hiding Within Uranus and Neptune
A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange ...
NASA Jupiter Images Reveal Gas Giant in Spectacular Detail
Onboard Juno is its famed camera, dubbed "JunoCam." A two megapixel visible light camera, JunoCam is designed "to study the dynamics of Jupiter's clouds and surface features of Jupiter's moons, and to ...
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Planet Jupiter, explained
The planet's fast spin on its axis means that one Jupiter day lasts less than 10 Earth hours, and it sparks electrical currents that may drive the planet's intense and massive magnetic field ...