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Big Fireball on Jupiter Spotted by Amateur Astronomers

Learn the latest discoveries about Jupiter and the Jovian moons and rings. The gas giant Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.

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It's a mystery why one of the main bands on Jupiter disappears and reappears.
This artist’s concept shows NASA's Jupiter Europa Orbiter which will carry a complement of 11 instruments to explore Europa and the Jupiter System. The spacecraft is part of the joint NASA-ESA Europa Jupiter System Mission.
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In this sky map, Jupiter appears as it will on March 2, 2011, during its 12-day visit to the constellation Cetus, the Whale.
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Juno spacecraft is being prepped for Jupiter at Lockheed Martin Space Systems. Bunny-suited Jack Farmerie, Lockheed Martin's lead spacecraft technician on the Juno project (left) and SPACE.com reporter Leonard David.
I've never been so close to something that is going so far away.
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Ultra-violet Hubble Space Telescope image of the southern aurora on Jupiter. The most poleward patch of emission has been found to appear and fade away every 2-3 minutes.
New images show dramatic auroras – flares of ultraviolet light – streaming from the planet Jupiter.
This artist’s concept shows NASA's Jupiter Europa Orbiter which will carry a complement of 11 instruments to explore Europa and the Jupiter System. The spacecraft is part of the joint NASA-ESA Europa Jupiter System Mission.
NASA and Europe's space agency are firming up plans for an ambitious mission to explore Jupiter's moons. NASA and ESA are working to develop the Europa Jupiter System Mission
This image shows how the Jupiter and the moon will appear at 6 p.m. EST – about one hour after sunset – on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011.
Super Bowl Sunday offers a cosmic post-game show by Jupiter and the moon.
These images made by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, show particle debris in Jupiter's atmosphere (bright smudges at lower left) after an object hurtled into the atmosphere on July 19, 2009. The image at left was captured July 20,
The giant object that plowed into Jupiter in the summer of 2009, creating a glowing scar, was most likely an asteroid rather than a comet, new research suggests.
A variety of images depicts the spot on Jupiter likely caused by a comet or asteroid, July 2009, similar to the impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy's fragments on Jupiter in 1994. This image shows the impact site as a yellow spot at center bottom, and was tak
Astronomers are saying that the spot on the Planet Jupiter was likely caused by an asteroid in July 2009. See pictures of the spot at SPACE.com.
Jupiter's moons Io and Ganymede will cast shadows on the planet as viewed from North America on Jan. 24, 2011.
Two Jupiter moons, Io and Ganymede, will cast double shadows on the planet on Jan. 24.
Galileo explaining lunar topography to two cardinals. Painting by Jean Leon Huens.
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