In other words, some storms on Jupiter can leave behind a fingerprint ... just south of the planet's equator and about 60 degrees east of the famous Great Red Spot. Amateur astronomer Phil ...

Although long-lasting vortices are not unusual on Jupiter – the most famous being the Great Red Spot, first observed in 1664 by Robert Hooke – their presence at the poles was unexpected.

Large balls of slush and ice rain down on Jupiter during the gaseous planet’s lightning storms, planetary scientists at UC‌ Berkeley said this week. The mushball theory — initially proposed in 2020 to ...

These currents help form the planet’s famous auroras ... can improve their predictions for how such storms might affect Earth. Even though Jupiter is more than 700 million kilometers away ...