Skywatch: Jupiter’s on the night shift
The planet named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology is visible all night long right now, rising in the east at ...
A Tale of Four Worlds: Hubble’s Ten-Year Hunt for Secrets in the Outer Solar System
NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...
NASA spacecraft spots hot lava on distant world Io
NASA's recent flybys of Io, however, reveal that it likely doesn't contain a global magma ocean beneath its surface, as ...
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Jupiter’s on the night shift this season
The planet named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology, is visible all night long right now over Butler, rising in ...
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Worthy of a Science Fiction Movie: NASA’s Juno Probe Captures an Image of a Dolphin on Jupiter’s Surface
The Juno mission, spearheaded by NASA, aims to unravel the secrets hidden beneath Jupiter’s dense cloud cover. Since its ...
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Dramatic changes on Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter revealed in 10 years of Hubble Telescope images (video)
Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...
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Astro Bob: Jupiter leads band of winter luminaries
The winter stars are like that. They're bright, sparkly and arrive "from a distance" low on the eastern horizon and gradually ...
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Scientists Intrigued by Planet With Long Tail
Astronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet with a long "tail" of gas trailing behind it. As NASA details in a recent ...
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NASA’s Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets
Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...
Astronomers Unveil the Mysterious 350,000-Mile Tail of Exoplanet WASP-69 b
Astronomers have discovered that the exoplanet WASP-69 b has a comet-like tail, which extends more than 350,000 miles due to ...
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New thunderstorms wider than Earth are spewing out green lightning on Jupiter — and could make one of the gas giant's massive bands disappear
A pair of massive thunderstorms have been spotted swirling in Jupiter's "South Equatorial Belt" and are likely unleashing ...
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Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?
As its name suggests, the mission’s target is Europa, one of the biggest of Jupiter’s 95 known moons. Europa is a snowball ...