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.

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 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." ...

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 planet’s magnetic field, which usually stretches ... The pressure created strong winds that pushed hot gases toward the equator. Because Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth, this hot ...

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 ...

For a planet so far from the sun, its upper atmosphere is a boiling 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit). That's about the same as Earth's upper atmosphere. "Jupiter is five times farther from the ...