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Artist's illustration of Juno and Jupiter.

NASA's Juno probe finds giant swirling waves in Jupiter's magnetosphere

By Samantha Mathewson published

Data from NASA's Juno mission shows that the spacecraft routinely encounters giant swirling waves, or vortices, at the boundary between the planet's magnetic field and the solar wind.

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a green dot of lightning flashes in the swirling clouds of jupiter's thick atmosphere

Alien green flash: Lightning crackles in vortex near Jupiter's north pole (photo)

By Mike Wall published

NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped a photo of a lightning strike high in the swirling clouds near Jupiter's north pole.

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jupiter's moon europa, its icy surface criscrossed by dark reddish-brown lines, against the blackness of space

Surprise! Jupiter's ocean moon Europa may not have a fully formed core

By Charles Q. Choi published

The core of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa might have formed billions of years after the rest of it did, if indeed it has formed at all, a new study finds.

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An artist's impression of 10 hot Jupiter worlds featured in the largest spectroscopic catalogue of exoplanet atmospheres to scale with one another. The cloudy atmospheres of such planets may hide signals of water, scientists say.

Friendless 'hot Jupiter' exoplanets may not be so lonely after all

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

How hot Jupiters form and evolve is one of the oldest questions in exoplanet research.

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a gaseous planet orbits close to a nearby star, causing some of its gases to be burned off into space

New 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet has a weird orbit and another planet may be to blame

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have used NASA's TESS telescope to discover a new 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet with a strange orbit.

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Composite images from left to right are Io, a orange/yellow moon covered in volcanoes, Europa, is a light gray moon with a distinct rusty red coloration across a large portion of the surface, Ganymede, a large gray moon with bright white streaks on the surface and Callisto, a dark gray moon with bright specks across the surface.

Jupiter's moons: Facts about the many moons of the Jovian system

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference Explore Jupiter's 95 moons including the infamous Galilean satellites and the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede.

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Poet Laureate Ada Limón in a blue suit looking out over a NASA clean room

A poem for Europa Clipper: US Poet Laureate Ada Limón reveals ode to fly on NASA Jupiter moon mission

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

"It is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water..." Those words, by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, are part of an ode flying on NASA's Europa Clipper.

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illustration of a spacecraft with two wing-like solar panels extended from a gold, cube-shaped body.

Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe finishes deploying its instruments

By Andrew Jones published

Europe's JUICE spacecraft is now in its full flight configuration, six weeks after the flagship mission launched for Jupiter.

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two infrared photos of jupiter showing the planet's cloud bands in shades of red and orange.

Why does Jupiter change its stripes? Scientists may finally have the answer

By Stefanie Waldek published

Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, an international team has correlated the variations in Jupiter's bands to changes in the planet's magnetic field.

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Artist's concept of lightning strikes in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, with the blackness of space in the background.

Jupiter's lightning is strikingly similar to Earth's

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted short bursts that make up lightning bolts on Jupiter, showing that Jovian lightning works in much the same way as it does on Earth.

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