Researchers from Boston University's (BU) Center for Space Physics report today in Nature that Jupiter's Great Red Spot may provide the mysterious source of energy required to heat the planet's upper atmosphere to the unusually ...
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When we used to do the Virtual Star Party (and I really need to start those up again, they were super fun), I had the worst luck with Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Whenever Jupiter was in the sky, the Great Red Spot always eluded ...
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Jul 25, 2016
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After sundown from late July through August, there's the chance to see five planets at once in the evening sky.
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Jul 21, 2016
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The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter. Juno's visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and ...
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(Phys.org)—Astronomers have detected two new "hot Jupiters" with a radius larger than they should have. Designated WASP-113b and WASP-114b, these exoplanets orbit their host stars located some 1,170 and 1,500 light years ...
After nearly five years and 1.8 billion miles of space travel, NASA's Juno mission will arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the spacecraft will orbit Jupiter for 20 months, completing ...
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Jul 8, 2016
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After a five-year journey, NASA's Juno spacecraft this week reached Jupiter and was successfully inserted into its orbit.
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Jul 7, 2016
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So are you catching sight of the waxing crescent moon returning this week to the early PM sky? The start of lunation 1157 gives folks observing Ramadan here in Morocco a reason to celebrate, as it marks the end of dawn-to-dusk ...
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NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter.
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Jul 6, 2016
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Now that the Juno spacecraft is settled in orbit around Jupiter, the real work is about to begin.
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Jul 6, 2016
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