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 ...
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Jupiter-sized interstellar visitor may have reshaped our solar system
The team proposed that a single encounter with an object between two and fifty times the mass of Jupiter could explain 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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James Webb telescope spots more than 100 new asteroids between Jupiter and Mars — and some are heading toward Earth
Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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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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December full moon shines bright this weekend: How to see the last full moon of 2024
December's full moon also coincides with the peak of the Geminid meteor shower, which should be most active on the night of Dec. 13.