Heating up the guts of gas giants
Hot Jupiters are eponymously hot from outside. How does this heat affect their atmospheres and deep interiors?
Hot Jupiters are eponymously hot from outside. How does this heat affect their atmospheres and deep interiors?
Let’s take a trip back to 1979 to check out the first signs of an ocean hidden deep beneath Europa’s icy shell.
Recently, it has been proposed that pebbles play a crucial in the formation of rocky cores that are large enough to accrue a large atmosphere and become gas giants like Jupiter. Do strong magnetic winds make things more difficult?
This week, Astrobites is attending the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Denver, Colorado! We’ll be bringing you highlights from the meeting all week long.
Thinking of taking a vacation to Jupiter this summer? With Jupiter’s quick rotation period, you’ll only have 10 hours per day to see all of the sights. But if not for Jupiter’s magnetic field, you might have only had 3 hours each day.
We dive back into one of the earliest studies of the outer solar system that helped us understand how four gas giants playing a chaotic game of catch could have knocked Pluto into its topsy-turvy orbit.