NASA’s Juno Discovers That Jupiter Has Lightning Just Like Ours

The solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, has lightning almost identical to its fifth largest, Earth. That’s despite Jupiter also being a gas rather than a rocky planet and about 11 times Earth’s diameter. The unlikely truth about Jupiter’s lightning—giant sparks of electricity in its atmosphere—has been uncovered by researchers looking at five years’ worth of data from NASA’s spacecraft Juno. It has been orbiting the giant planet since mid-2016.