Amateur Astronomer Stumbles Upon Something Strange That Contradicts Previous Models of Jupiter's Atmospheric Composition An amateur astronomer's innovative use of old traditional observation ...

Recently, he demonstrated that the abundance of ammonia and cloud-top pressure in Jupiter's atmosphere could be mapped using commercially-available telescopes and a few specially coloured filters.

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Magnetic tornadoes twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere create massive, Earth-sized anticyclonic storms in the planet's atmosphere. These dark ovals, detectable only in ultraviolet light ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map the abundance of ammonia in Jupiter's atmosphere, but Hill ultimately ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

However, this paradigm has been overturned by ... Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice Jan. 6, 2025 — Collaborative work by amateur and professional ...