Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice—the ...

Did you know that Jupiter changes color every five years? It's like the planet's giving itself a cosmic makeover! Scientists have been puzzled by this phenomenon for ages, but now they finally have ...

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Recent photographs from an amateur astrophotographer have shed light on an intriguing phenomenon on Jupiter: two gigantic white storms visible in the planet’s South Equatorial Belt (SEB). According to ...