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New Jupiter Discovery:

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October 21, 2023

New Jupiter discovery
Webb finds new weather feature

Jupiter from the Webb telescopeJupiter as seen in the infrared from the Webb Space Telescope. (NASA)

Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet, continues to offer up new atmospheric features. This time, a jet stream, similar to the one on Earth but significantly larger and fiercer, has been discovered.

Scientists, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope Near-infrared camera, discovered a jet stream traversing Jupiter’s equatorial region.

The estimated jet stream speed of 320 mph is nearly twice the speed of an EF 5 tornado on Earth. The earth’s polar jet stream can reach 110 mph during winter. The Jupiter jet stream is huge, it is 3,000 miles wide, or about the width of the contiguous U.S. This jet stream sits about 25 miles above Jupiter’s immense and ferocious clouds.

The James Webb telescope, launched in 2021 from French Guiana in South America, is located 930,000 miles from Earth. It has made unique discoveries billions of light years away and even within our own solar system.

Here are other discoveries from the Webb telescope:

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