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Because Jupiter’s Great Red Spot isn’t monstrous enough, it devours entire storms

Elizabeth Rayne

Mar 21, 2021

Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Tag: Exoplanets

Space forecast is clear skies, because a Jupiter-like gas giant with no upper atmosphere clouds exists

Elizabeth Rayne

Jan 28, 2021

Tag: Exoplanets

Jupiter’s whirling, swirling cyclones are actually portals to the space desert no one expected

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 23, 2020

hot spots on Jupiter

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Wait. Jupiter has *how* many moons?

Phil Plait

Dec 22, 2020

It doesn’t really work this way, but you get the idea. From a Hubble image of Jupiter and its moon Europa. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Why Jupiter could be the final girl of the solar system - until a star kicks it out

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 8, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Jupiter and Saturn align in the sky, their closest approach to each other in 400 years

Phil Plait

Dec 8, 2020

A couple, including the photographer, watch Jupiter and Saturn and the Milky Way over the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Italian Alps in early October 2020. Credit: Giorgia Hofer

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Take a breathtaking jaunt over Jupiter in NASA's soaring new Juno spacecraft flyby video

Jeff Spry

Nov 25, 2020

Swirling storms on Saturn and Jupiter are unlike anything on Earth

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 21, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Jupiter's moon Europa may glow due to salty irradiation

Phil Plait

Nov 11, 2020

The dark side of Europa may glow a lovely shade of teal, as shown in this artwork, due to radiation bombarding salty ice on its surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Eerie flashes of light coming from Jupiter glow like space sprites and elves

Elizabeth Rayne

Oct 31, 2020

Tag: io

Astronomers spy violent volcanic eruptions arising from Jupiter's moon Io

Jeff Spry

Oct 28, 2020

Tag: io

Venus is now a hell desert, perhaps because Jupiter pushed it around

Elizabeth Rayne

Oct 5, 2020

Tag: TV

Now we know why the UFO-like storms on Jupiter look like aliens left them behind

Elizabeth Rayne

Sep 27, 2020

hurricanes on Jupiter's south pole

Tag: TV

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Hubble sees Jupiter erupt with storms big enough to swallow Earth

Phil Plait

Sep 18, 2020

Jupiter (and its moon Europa to the upper left) captured by Hubble in visible light on 25 August 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: asteroid impact

The biggest crater known was from an asteroid that made the dinosaur killer look like a pebble

Phil Plait

Aug 26, 2020

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, showing the dark and light terrains; the furrows can be seen to the upper right in the dark terrain. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Emily Lakdawalla

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: asteroid impact

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