Explore seven factual aspects of Jupiter, including its size, moons, rotation, atmosphere, rings, formation, and magnetic field based on NASA findings.
Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...
Scientists have measured that Jupiter releases more internal heat than it absorbs from the Sun, based on observations of its structure, rotation, and atmospheric behavior.
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. This is the first measurement of the ...
Jupiter reaches opposition once a year, when Earth passes directly between it and the Sun, creating the best possible viewing ...
Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...