The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet's magnetic equator. An international team of scientists ...

"The result was so startling and yet clear, it took us all by surprise, and we strongly suspected and speculated that the feature was caused by Jupiter's magnetic equator." Advertisement ...

Jupiter’s magnetic field is profoundly different from ... and another nicknamed the “Great Blue Spot” near its equator. (No relation to the planet’s more famous ‘Great Red Spot ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Like Earth, Jupiter's magnetic field has a primary north and ... And the planet has another big magnetic "south pole" close to the equator the researchers refer to this equatorial patch as a ...

causing the upper atmosphere to expand and spill hot gas typically confined to the poles down toward the equator, team members said. "The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a ...

"The solar wind squished Jupiter's magnetic shield like a giant squash ... causing the upper atmosphere to expand and spill hot gas toward the equator. Scientists had previously thought Jupiter's ...

which is an intense magnetic field near the planet's equator. Juno is also flying by Jupiter's moons, which have donut-shaped clouds surrounding them, which the spacecraft will fly through.

In 1610, Galileo Galilei observed Jupiter through his telescope ... The planet ran coldest near the equator and hottest near the magnetic poles, where the auroras flared most intensely.

Wrinkles and burps Jupiter's equator is usually one of its most violent ... auroras above Jupiter's north pole are caused by magnetic fields slamming charged particles from the sun into the ...