For 44 years, it was a mystery as to how Jupiter’s most violent moon, Io, became so volcanically active. It […] ...

The European space mission JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is currently on its way to probe in more detail. It will fly past Europa and Jupiter’s outer moon Callisto, before settling into ...

This means the gravitational force that it feels from Jupiter changes throughout its orbit, twisting and squeezing the interior of the moon, which results in energy being released as heat.

As its name suggests, the mission’s target is Europa, one of the biggest of Jupiter’s 95 known moons. Europa is a snowball slightly smaller than Earth’s moon. It has an atmosphere that is ...

Jupiter will be at its brightest and most visible in the night ... (Think about how full moon, or our brightest moon, occurs only when the moon is opposite the sun.) That’s why Jupiter will ...

In addition, Jupiter is at its closest to Earth just one day earlier ... With these aids, you may even be able to see some of Jupiter’s larger moons as well. One key tip for observing objects ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope took this photo of stripey Jupiter and its moon Europa in August 2020. The Great Red Spot, a large hurricane-like storm currently about the size the Earth, shows at bottom.

With Jupiter still large and bright in the sky, let’s return to the king of planets to watch the icy moon Europa transit the disk together with its shadow overnight. Jupiter hangs in Taurus ...