Forty-year monitoring of Jupiter reveals long-term oscillations and teleconnections across the north–south hemispheres and upper–lower atmospheres. This discovery has important implications for the atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs.
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Zhang, X. The symphony of Jupiter. Nat Astron 7, 130–131 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-023-01897-y
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