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New thunderstorms wider than Earth are spewing out green lightning on Jupiter — and could make one of the gas giant's massive bands disappear

A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing massive bolts of green lightning. Some experts think the pale clouds could end ...

Do super-Jupiters look like Jupiter? Not necessarily, study shows

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev ...
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Tempests in the troposphere: Mapping the impact of giant storms on Jupiter’s deep atmosphere

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
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Do super-Jupiters look like Jupiter? New Webb discovery says the answer is more surprising than we thought

At first glance, giant planets called super-Jupiters might seem like close cousins of Jupiter. Some are even ten times more ...
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The Great Red Spot: 7 Strange Facts About Jupiter's 190-Year Old Storm

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is one of the most recognizable features of our solar system; it's famously larger than Earth itself serves as an identifying mark on the largest of our gas giants. Consisting ...