above the tops of Jupiter’s clouds, at a latitude of 48.9 degrees.” According to NASA, the scale of the image is 5.8 miles per pixel, which gives you a good idea of just how huge the planet ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Jupiter’s iconic ... forming bright white clouds. These fleeting formations have been captured by spacecraft, appearing as small patches floating above darker cloud decks. The formation of ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice ... 2024 — Astronomers have just discovered WASP-193b, an extraordinarily low-density giant planet orbiting ...

Bartlett said he can often see canals on Mars, clouds circling Jupiter, and the faint sheen of Saturn's rings. Mercury can be tough to spot because it's closest to the sun. On February 28, though, it ...

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice ...

it was just assumed that its main observable clouds were most likely composed ... to calculate the abundance of these gases above Jupiter’s cloud tops. Methane's absorption at 619 nm serves ...

Thanks to a collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers, a new study reveals that Jupiter's clouds are not composed of ammonia ice, as long believed. This breakthrough, published in the ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...