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Juno Update: Spacecraft releases first image from Jupiter orbit
The JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s mission is operational and sending down data
Juno Update: Spacecraft enters Jupiter’s magnetic field
The craft has made it to the planet’s magnetosphere, where the movement of particles in space is controlled by what’s going on inside the gas giant
Badly behaved Neptune to help improve space weather forecasts
Neptune’s magnetic field could help us to improve our ability to forecast space weather events such as solar storms
What is an aurora?
They’re not just on Earth, you know. Read on to find out how auroras form on different planets in the Solar System.