Magnetic vortices twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere cause giant, ultraviolet-absorbing polar ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...
Dark ovals in Jupiter's polar haze, visible only at UV wavelengths, were first noticed 25 years ago, then ignored. A UC ...
The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles.
Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...
A planetary scientist proposes that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune are layered, with deep oceans of water above ...
Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two ...
When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic ...
New models using Voyager 2 data show that separate layers in the planets’ mantles could be creating disordered magnetic ...
like Jupiter and Neptune in the solar system). However, detecting atmospheres around smaller planets, closer in size to Earth, has so far remained an elusive goal. "So far, every planet we've detected ...