A collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers has led to a major discovery about Jupiter's clouds, challenging ...

The planet Jupiter never fails to impress with its swirling cloud bands and massive storms like the well-known Great Red Spot. Now, new research from a team of citizen scientists working in ...

Projected variation in ammonia abundance and pressure at the cloud tops near the center of the disk at selected dates in the VLT/MUSE archives. Thanks to a collaboration between amateur and ...

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 ...

Scientists and amateur astronomers have teamed up to upend a long-held assumption that Jupiter's iconic swirling clouds are made of frozen ammonia — a pretty foundational revelation about the ...

screams past the Jovian cloud tops at 130,000 mph, and exits at the south pole. This highly elliptical loop helps protect the spacecraft's electronics from Jupiter's powerful radiation fields ...

Thanks to a collaboration between amateur and professional astronomers, a new study reveals that Jupiter's clouds are not composed of ammonia ice, as long believed. This breakthrough, published in ...