Giant planet News
As per existing theories of planet formation, while small stars can readily form rocky planets, they do not gather enough material together to form Jupiter-sized planets.
The problem is the sunscreen (titanium oxide) precipitation only happens on the planet's permanent nighttime side.
The team also discovered a relatively sparse region of the main asteroid belt, where the few asteroids present are likely pristine relics from early in solar system history.
Juno, the first solar-powered mission to Jupiter, using its special instruments, will peer beneath the swirling clouds, unlocking secrets about the planet and the entire solar system.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is best known for its colorful storms, the most famous being the Great Red Spot.
The Juno spacecraft is arriving at the giant planet on the evening of July 4, 2016, after an almost five-year journey.
Science instruments on board detected changes in the particles and fields around the spacecraft as it passed from an environment dominated by the interplanetary solar wind into Jupiter's magnetosphere.
According to the US space agency NASA, the planet will make a close encounter with the Earth on March 8, 2016.
For years, scientists have suspected the ouster was either Saturn or Jupiter.
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