When NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sailed past Jupiter in 1979, it recorded a stunning and unusual phenomenon—plasma waves as it crossed the planet’s bow shock. This haunting sound, captured 46 years ...

Jupiter’s magnetosphere is the largest structure in the Solar System (excluding the heliosphere), and it is significantly stronger than the Sun’s magnetic field.

Jupiter’s moons play a significant role in the magnetosphere’s dynamics, the researchers added. The plasma density in the magnetosphere causes it to “swell like a balloon,” they stated.

Recent observations of Jupiter's powerful magnetic field by NASA's Juno spacecraft have uncovered a never-before-documented variety of plasma waves that seem to defy our current understanding of ...

Image from a model produced by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research depicting Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, giant swirling waves, at the Jupiter magnetosphere and the solar wind boundary, ...

The region of space dominated by Earth's magnetic field is the magnetosphere. Observations have shown that, within this ...

Jupiter’s magnetic field is some 20,000 times more powerful than Earth’s. Its magnetosphere is so large, it clashes with the solar wind millions of miles before the wind even reaches the gas ...

Southwest Research Institute. "Giant swirling waves at edge of Jupiter's magnetosphere." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 17 July 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 07 / 230717143208.htm>.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Short Wave hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong about the music of Earth's magnetosphere, a mission to Jupiter's icy moons, and a potential runaway supermassive black hole.

Previously planned to plunge into Jupiter after completing its 35th and final orbit on July 30, 2021, Juno’s mission has now been extended to 2025. Its new mission will see it perform close ...

With NASA's Cassini spacecraft in its six-month flyby of Jupiter, scientists are getting a good look at the giant planet's magnetosphere (right). The Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI ...