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Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

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Atmospheric chemistry is the study of the components of planetary atmospheres, particularly that of the Earth. It specifically looks at the composition of planetary atmospheres and the reactions ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

The WASP-132 system contains a Hot Jupiter (in the foreground), an inner super-Earth (here transiting in front of the orange host star) and the planet WASP-132d, discovered towards the outside of ...

Jumping Jupiter! The results are in, storm chasers! Thanks to your help over the last two years, the Jovian Vortex Hunter project has published a catalog of 7,222 vortices, which you can download.

Jupiter, the gas giant, hides mysteries beneath its colorful bands that have intrigued scientists for centuries. A recent discovery, stemming from a technique accessible to amateurs, challenges our ...

Colorful Bands: Jupiter’s atmosphere is characterized by alternating bands of light and dark colors. These bands are created by variations in temperature, pressure, and composition of the clouds.

Magnetic tornadoes twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere create massive, Earth-sized anticyclonic storms in the planet's atmosphere. These dark ovals, detectable only in ultraviolet light ...

Jupiter's clouds composed of ammonium hydrosulfide, not ammonia ice Amateur method aids planetary cloud mapping with new accuracy Photochemical reactions play a key role in Jupiter’s atmospheric ...