He recently showed that commercially available telescopes and some colored filters can be used to map the ammonia and cloud-top pressure in Jupiter's atmosphere. The results not only revealed that ...

A panning-view of Jupiter’s upper atmospheric temperatures, 1000 kilometers above the cloud tops. Jupiter is shown on top of a visible image for context. In this snapshot, the auroral region ...

Amateur astronomer Steven Hill, based in Colorado, used commercial telescopes and color filters to map ammonia in ... of Oxford confirm that Jupiter's clouds are actually primarily composed ...

(CNN)-- Scientists don't know why, but one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has disappeared -- again. Like a wayward pet, the belt has gone missing before and has always returned. "This is a big ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...