Halloween Mask: Devilish Face Captured on Jupiter’s Surface by Juno Spacecraft

Halloween Mask: Devilish Face Captured on Jupiter’s Surface by Juno Spacecraft

The Juno spacecraft captured a devilish face on Jupiter’s surface during a close flyby just before Halloween, and the gas giant could handily win any competition for the best Halloween mask. A morbid-looking face was photographed by a NASA probe in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere in a region called Jet N1. The image shows swirling clouds … Read more

NASA Discovers High-Speed Equatorial Jet Stream in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

NASA Discovers High-Speed Equatorial Jet Stream in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

The newly discovered equatorial jet stream travels at about 320 miles (515 kilometers) per hour, twice the sustained wind speed of a Category 5 hurricane on Earth.It is located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the clouds in Jupiter’s lower stratosphere NASA recently announced that the Webb Space Telescope has discovered an unprecedented new feature … Read more

Discovering Jupiter’s Hidden Secrets: New Findings from the James Webb Space Telescope

Discovering Jupiter’s Hidden Secrets: New Findings from the James Webb Space Telescope

Amira Shehata wrote Saturday, October 21, 2023 12:30 PM Although James Webb Space Telescope Initially described as having the potential to reveal the outermost horizons of the universe, some of the observatory’s most precise images are actually images of our solar system, thanks to its gold-plated mirror cell and infrared equipment, such as the near-infrared … Read more

Test Your Knowledge: 10 Questions About the Solar System

Test Your Knowledge: 10 Questions About the Solar System

Scientists have been studying the solar system for centuries. Thanks to them, as well as advances in science and technology, we have a lot of key information about the universe today. But how well do you know it? Try answering the following 10 questions to test your knowledge. Solar System The Solar System is a … Read more

NASA’s Psyche Mission: Exploring the Metal-Rich Planet in the Asteroid Belt

NASA’s Psyche Mission: Exploring the Metal-Rich Planet in the Asteroid Belt

The American National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Psyche mission took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Friday. The goal of the mission is to explore the distant, metal-rich planet of the same name, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket with a probe on board lifted off from Kennedy … Read more

TOI-332b: A Fascinating Exoplanet with Unusual Properties

TOI-332b: A Fascinating Exoplanet with Unusual Properties

Current theories about the formation of planets do not apply to TOI-332b. It is denser than iron and orbits its star at breakneck speed at improbably close proximity. Out of the seemingly infinite number of planets in the universe, humanity knows only about 5 thousand of them – beyond the planets of the Solar System. … Read more

Discovering Planets Larger than Jupiter: Exploring the Size and Mass of Exoplanets

Discovering Planets Larger than Jupiter: Exploring the Size and Mass of Exoplanets

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is much smaller than many other exoplanets. One of the planets has been identified as having a much larger size than Jupiter. For information, Jupiter has a width of 11 times that of Earth. This makes the gas giant the largest planet known … Read more

The Largest Planets in the Universe: Beyond Jupiter’s Size

The Largest Planets in the Universe: Beyond Jupiter’s Size

Macassar – The planet Jupiter holds the title as the largest planet in the solar system. It turns out that the size of Jupiter is nothing when compared to other monster planets in the universe. In addition to the array of planets in our solar system, there are other planets of various appearances and sizes … Read more