Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

It could also settle a long-running debate. A group of researchers studying data gathered by NASA’s Juno spacecraft of Jupiter’s magnetosphere found that there is a crescent-shaped area of ...

Jupiter’s magnetic field is so strong that it’s second only to that of the Sun in intensity. The region around a body where its magnetic field influences space is known as its magnetosphere.

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Jupiter’s moon Io (left side of image) is connected to Jupiter (right side of image) through the planet’s magnetic field. Juno’s close flyby of Io revealed electrons with varying properties ...

To get close to Europa, the probe must pass through Jupiter’s immense magnetosphere, which causes intense radiation that could destroy many standard spacecrafts and probes. The magnetosphere of ...

Understanding them gives scientists useful information about Jupiter's magnetosphere and the role its moons have in creating these magnificent space displays. NGC 4535, or the "Lost Galaxy," is a ...

Since these properties are sensitive to environmental conditions – for example, bombardment by charged particles from Jupiter's magnetosphere – as well as to geological processes, such as tectonic or ...

A compass near Jupiter, for instance, would be overwhelmed by the planet’s complex and extremely powerful magnetosphere — which is some 20,000 times the strength of Earth’s. Meanwhile, Saturn’s ...

FAST (Earth's aurora), THEMIS (Earth's magnetosphere), RBSP (Earth's radiation belts), MMS (magnetic reconnection mission), and MAVEN (Mars atmosphere). We also contribute to STEREO (solar wind) and ...