Science Graphic of the Week: Jupiter’s Huge, Crazy Magnetic Field

The image above shows a simulation of Jupiter’s magnetic field, whose intricate complexities make it extremely difficult to accurately model. While it may look like the gas giant is vomiting up some enormous space worms, the visualization is actually capturing details of the gas giant’s magnetism with greater precision than ever before. Everything’s bigger about […]

















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