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 ...

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.

The mysterious workings of Jupiter's intense magnetic field are coming to light ... complex workings of an intense area of magnetism near Jupiter's equator, dubbed the "Great Blue Spot." ...

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 ...

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.

And that variation appears to be linked to the planet’s magnetic field. "If you look at Jupiter through a telescope, you see the stripes, which go round the equator along lines of latitude.

"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 ...

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.