Horrifying ‘roasted planet’ has ‘torture’ event every 111 days where Nasa says ‘nightmare alien world boils to 1,100C’
AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...
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See the moon and Jupiter grab 'the Bull' by the horns this week
Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...
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False-color image of Jupiter in UV, showing dark UV oval at south pole (IMAGE)
An artificially colored view of Jupiter as seen in ultraviolet light. In addition to the Great Red Spot, which appears blue, another oval feature can be seen in the brown haze at Jupiter's south pole.
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Jupiter will be at its biggest and brightest this weekend. Here’s how to see it
This happens because, although Earth and Jupiter both have orbits around the sun that are almost circular, they are not perfectly circular. Both orbits are slightly oval shaped, called elliptical ...
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Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ Is Shrinking — And Scientists Think They Know Why
A storm roughly the diameter of Earth, the Great Red Spot, is in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere and has been raging since at least 1831. A swirling, red-orange oval of high pressure more than ...
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Jupiter's polar vortices: Magnetic mysteries unraveled
In the 1990s, the Hubble telescope captured dark oval shapes at both poles of the planet. In 2000, the Cassini probe confirmed the existence of this phenomenon at Jupiter's northern pole.