NASA's Juno: Science Results Offer First 3D View of Jupiter Atmosphere
Jupiters Bands This illustration combines an image of Jupiter from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASAs Juno spacecraft with a composite image of Earth
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Jupiters Bands This illustration combines an image of Jupiter from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASAs Juno spacecraft with a composite image of Earth
Amazing video shows aurora - spectacular natural light shows caused by the Sun - on Uranus. Experts at the University of Leicester led three days of observations of the planet earlier this month.
A research team led by Professor Soebur Razzaque from the University of Johannesburg predicted gamma-ray burst (GRB) behaviour. One such burst recently disrupted cell phone reception in South Africa. While Earth gets blasted by mild short GRBs regularly, the research team found that giant flare GRB 200415A came from another possible source. It erupted from a very rare, powerful neutron star called a magnetar, a star dying soon after the beginning of the Universe. Their findings were published in Gamma-ray bursts explained GRB explosions can disrupt mobile phone reception on Earth. Prof Razza...