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266 active Jupiter moon volcanoes connected by global magma ocean
NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — Io, one of Jupiter’s captivating moons, has intrigued scientists for years with its incredible volcanic activity. Often referred to as a “volcanic world,” this celestial body is a hotbed of continuous eruptions. The underlying force driving this volcanic phenomenon is the result of tidal heating, a consequence of the gravitational interaction between Io and its massive parent planet, Jupiter, along with other neighboring moons.…
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Scientists solved the mystery of changing the color of the stripes on Jupiter
NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — The planet Jupiter looks beautiful and colorful due to the bands of different colors and atmospheric vortices that are visible in its atmosphere. For a long time, scientists could not solve the secret of changing colors, but a new study finally provides an answer. The study of an international group of scientists, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, is dedicated to the study of…
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The James Webb telescope discovered carbon dioxide on Jupiter’s moon
(ORDO NEWS) — The James Webb Telescope (JWST), recently launched into space, was able to detect carbon dioxide (CO2) ice on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. But what makes this discovery so important? Let’s take a look at the results of this amazing discovery, reported in the journal Science. Europa is one of the icy satellites of the gas giant Jupiter. Its surface is covered with a thick ice…
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NASA recorded a green flash on Jupiter
(ORDO NEWS) — The Juno spacecraft took another picture of Jupiter. Thanks to him, scientists received more information about the turbulent weather of the gas giant. This is reported by Space.com. It is noted that the device received the image on December 31, 2020, being at a distance of 32 thousand kilometers from the peak of the gas giant’s clouds. But they published it only now. The image shows a…
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Scientists found out why the stripes on Jupiter change their color
(ORDO NEWS) — The planet Jupiter looks beautiful and colorful due to the bands of different colors and atmospheric vortices that are visible in its atmosphere. For a long time, scientists could not solve the secret of changing colors, but a new study finally provides an answer. IFLScience writes about it. The study of an international group of scientists, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, is dedicated to the study…
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How earthquakes shape the smooth terrain of the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, scientists have found
(ORDO NEWS) — The mysteries of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s icy moons are beginning to be cleared up thanks to a new NASA study that offers a simple explanation for the origin of smooth landforms on their surfaces. The huge gravity of the gas giants causes earthquakes on their moons, which in turn can lead to the formation of landslides and surprisingly flat areas. In general terms, the surfaces of icy…
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Newborn Jupiter could be bright enough to bake its moons
(ORDO NEWS) — Young Jupiter, still hot from its conception, could blast its four largest moons with such intense light that it evaporated water and stripped them of their volatiles. According to a new study, this radiation could explain why the Galilean moons have such a composition: from the hideous volcano world of Io, closest to Jupiter, to the ice-crusted Europa, then from the giant moon Ganymede to the most…
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Jupiter-sized planet found with density higher than lead
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers have just found a cosmic cannonball. At a distance of about 730 light-years from the star, an exoplanet the size of Jupiter, but with incredible density, orbits the star. Astronomers have determined that the world, named TOI-4603b, has a mass of nearly 13 Jupiter masses. This means that its density is almost 3 times that of the Earth and just over 9 times that of Jupiter.…
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Radiation from young Jupiter dried out its moons
(ORDO NEWS) — Jupiter’s closest moon, Io, contains as little water as almost any other large body in the solar system. Astronomers attributed this to the high activity of the young planet, whose radiation evaporated all the water from Io and most of it from neighboring Europa. Giant Jupiter is surrounded by almost a hundred moons, including the four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. If we consider them…
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A planet between Mars and Jupiter would destroy the Earth. We are lucky that there is no such planet
(ORDO NEWS) — According to a model built by the University of California at Riverside, a terrestrial planet whose orbit would pass between Mars and Jupiter could push the Earth out of the solar system and destroy life on our planet. The sun is an ordinary star, the Earth is an ordinary planet. But it seems that planetary systems like our solar system are very rare. Astrophysicist Stephen Cain, lead…
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Astronomers discover ‘impossible Jupiter’
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of astronomers has discovered a previously unknown Jupiter-sized gas giant exoplanet that orbits its star in less than three days. The discovery was made by the so-called transit search method using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spacecraft. This method allows you to find planets that, rotating around their star, periodically block its light from the observer. The newly discovered alien world…
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Planets strikingly similar to Jupiter and Neptune discovered orbiting sun-like star
(ORDO NEWS) — When it comes to looking for life on other planets, a warm and humid world filled with a complex chemical soup may not be enough. It would be beneficial to have suitable planets in the neighborhood. An intriguing pair of gas giants have been discovered orbiting a star so similar to the Sun that it could almost be its twin. teach us something about solar systems like…
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Jupiter-sized exoplanet discovered
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of astronomers announces the discovery of a new gas giant using NASA‘s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The exoplanet, designated TOI-3235 b, is the size of Jupiter. It orbits its parent star in less than three days. TESS is currently surveying some 200,000 of the brightest stars near the Sun to look for transiting exoplanets. So far, it has identified over 6,100 candidate exoplanets…
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Scientists capture direct image of Jupiter-like exoplanet
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers image a Jupiter-like exoplanet from AF Hare. This is reported by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The observations were made by two independent teams, led by Dino Mesa and Robert De Rosa, using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. This observatory consists of four main 8.2-meter telescopes and four 1.8-meter auxiliary telescopes that can work as a whole. Initially, signs of the existence of this…
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Astronomers look at auroras on all four of Jupiter’s Galilean moons
(ORDO NEWS) — New observations have shown that the auroras on Jupiter’s four largest moons are deep red, and those on Io are also hues of yellow and orange. When the solar wind interacts with the atmosphere, it can excite the atoms entering it, causing them to radiate. Magnetically guided solar wind particles enter the upper atmosphere at the poles, resulting in auroras. Such a glow can be observed not…
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New auroras discovered on Jupiter’s four largest moons
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea have found that auroras at visible wavelengths appear on all 4 of Jupiter’s major moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Using the HIRES spectrometer, as well as high-resolution spectrographs at the Large Binocular Telescope and Apache Point Observatory, a team led by Caltech and Boston University observed the moons in Jupiter’s shadow. Their faint auroras, caused by the…
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All of Jupiter’s largest moons have auroras that glow deep red and are 15 times brighter than our own.
(ORDO NEWS) — Jupiter is well known for its spectacular auroras, thanks in no small part to the Juno orbiter and recent images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). As on Earth, these dazzling phenomena result from the interaction of charged solar particles with Jupiter’s magnetic field and atmosphere. Over the years, astronomers have also detected faint auroras in the atmospheres of Jupiter’s largest moons (also known as…
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Juice Exploration Odyssey: Jupiter’s Icy Moons
(ORDO NEWS) — The great exploration space odyssey is about to begin. Humanity’s bold new mission to the outer solar system, ESA‘s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or Juice, is ready to explore the giant planet Jupiter and its largest moons. These intriguing worlds have intrigued scientists since Galileo first aimed his telescope at the planet and discovered its four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Three of them are…
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Jupiter has overtaken Saturn as the planet with the most famous moons
(ORDO NEWS) — The struggle for the most famous satellites of the solar system continues. After Jupiter gave way to Saturn in 2019, Jupiter took the lead again. Astronomers have counted 12 previously unknown moons in orbit around the largest planet in the solar system, bringing the known number to 92, leaving Saturn and its measly 83 moons in the dust. The orbits of the satellites, unnamed, were published in…
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Overheating of the camera “Juno” led to the loss of images of Jupiter
(ORDO NEWS) — Most of the images of Jupiter taken during the last approach of the Juno automatic interplanetary station in mid-January turned out to be of poor quality due to overheating of the camera. This is the second such incident, the causes of which have not yet been determined, according to the NASA website. JunoCam is a telescopic color optical camera that has been installed at the Juno station,…
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Juno mission team examines engineering data from the JunoCam camera after the 48th flyby of Jupiter
(ORDO NEWS) — The JunoCam camera installed on the Juno spacecraft did not receive all the planned images during the last flyby of Jupiter on January 22. Data received from the spacecraft indicates that JunoCam has encountered a problem similar to the one that occurred during the previous rendezvous with the gas giant. Then the team observed an anomalous increase in temperature after turning on the camera. However, in this…
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Mysterious asymmetry of Jupiter’s asteroids can finally be explained
(ORDO NEWS) — Jupiter is not alone in its orbital path around the sun. Two giant swarms of asteroids have become trapped in the gravitational interaction between the gas giant and our star, ahead and behind Jupiter in its cosmic dimension. Between these swarms, collectively known as Trojans, we have identified more than 12,000 asteroids to date, but there is a curious mystery that has baffled scientists: the leading swarm,…
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New images of Jupiter taken by the Juno spacecraft are missing
(ORDO NEWS) — The automatic interplanetary station “Juno” (Juno) was unable to save and transmit to Earth the images taken during the 48th approach to Jupiter, which occurred on January 22, 2023. 213 shots were lost due to the JunoCam overheating. The first technical problems with the probe’s camera appeared in December 2022 during the 47th approach to Jupiter. Due to the anomalous rise in temperature, four images of the…
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Several shots of the surface of Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon
(ORDO NEWS) — Here are some shots of the surface of Europa , the icy moon of Jupiter , which has a subsurface ocean of liquid water, which is considered as a potentially habitable place. All images were taken by NASA‘s Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from December 1995 to September 2003. The mission ended with a purposeful submersion of the spacecraft into Jupiter’s atmosphere; for some time, Galileo transmitted…
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Massive volcanic eruption detected on Jupiter’s hellish moon Io
(ORDO NEWS) — The most powerful volcanic eruptions in the solar system do not occur on Earth, but on Io, the sulphurous moon orbiting the planet Jupiter. And now, researchers at the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) in the US have noticed a recent outbreak that has proven surprisingly productive, even for a hellish world like Io. In the space around Jupiter, the torus of plasma, created and fed by Io’s…
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Comparative sizes of the moons of Jupiter and New York
(ORDO NEWS) — Jupiter , the largest planet in the solar system , has a lot of satellites – 80 to be exact. And they all vary considerably in size, as shown in the amazing video (below) posted by MetaBallStudios on YouTube, which compares the size of the gas giant’s satellites to New York City. The video gives a very accurate idea of the size of Jupiter’s natural moons, which…
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New hot Jupiter Exoplanet discovered
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of astronomers has discovered a new hot Jupiter class exoplanet using the TESS space observatory. The gas giant is nearly three times as massive as Jupiter in the Solar System and orbits the rapidly spinning star TOI-778. The newly discovered exoplanet was designated TOI-778 b. It has a radius of 1.37 that of Jupiter and is about 2.8 times as massive as Jupiter. TOI-778…
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Astronomers have discovered a hot Jupiter around a rapidly rotating star
(ORDO NEWS) — The TESS space telescope has discovered a new exoplanet – the hot gas giant TOI-778 b in orbit around a dwarf star, which is rapidly rotating around its axis. To search for exoplanets, you can track the slight fluctuations in the luminosity of distant stars – periodic changes that are associated with the passage of the planet in their background. This work is carried out by the…
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Unexpected patterns of weather on Jupiter revealed
(ORDO NEWS) — NASA scientists have uncovered unexpected weather patterns on Jupiter in a 40-year. The results of this work will make it possible to predict weather changes on this planet in the future. For this, data obtained on NASA’s Voyager and Cassini spacecraft, as well as from ground-based telescopes, were used. Scientists have studied temperature information using images of a bright infrared glow in Jupiter’s upper troposphere, the layer…
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Decades of data reveal strange temperature fluctuations pulsing through Jupiter’s clouds
(ORDO NEWS) — A careful examination of the data for 40 years revealed that something strange is happening with Jupiter. According to a large amount of information collected by both ground-based and space-based telescopes, the temperature in Jupiter’s upper troposphere shows regular fluctuations that do not appear to be associated with any seasonal fluctuations. This surprising and intriguing discovery could help scientists finally understand the gas giant’s strange weather. “Now…