Cassini Spotted a Wave Shaking Up One of the Jupiter’s Jet Streams
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet’s jet streams, an interaction that also takes…
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So What Lies Inside Jupiter?
Jupiter’s swirling clouds can be seen through any department store telescope. With no more effort than it takes to bend over an eyepiece, you can witness…
Read the articleJuno Mission Launches to Jupiter
NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:25 a.m. PDT (12:25 p.m. EDT) Friday to begin a five-year…
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Earlier this month, ESA’s Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have…
Read the articleNASA’s Galileo Spacecraft Reveals Magma Ocean Under Io
New data analysis from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface ocean of molten or partially molten magma beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. ……
Read the articleMysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud
Detailed observations made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. It came from a…
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Big Auroras on Jupiter
So you thought Northern Lights were big in Alaska? “That’s nothing,” says Randy Gladstone of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. “Jupiter has auroras…
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Four hundred years ago when Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the satellites appeared in his primitive telescope as tiny, almost infinitesimal specks of light pirouetting…
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Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley from Canberra, Australia captured an image of Jupiter on July 19, 2009 showing a possible new impact site. Anthony’s image shows a…
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Today NASA released stunning new images of Jupiter and its moons taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Views include a movie of a volcanic eruption on…
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