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Comet Impacts on Jupiter Help Scientists Reveal Storms of Unimaginable Proportions
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March 19, 2021
Comet Impacts on Jupiter Help Scientists Reveal Storms of Unimaginable Proportions
Analysis of comet impacts on Jupiter have helped scientists reveal the existence of storms with winds of unimaginable proportions. Of…
Massive Comet Near Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Photographed by Hubble
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February 27, 2021
Massive Comet Near Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Photographed by Hubble
Astronomers studied comet P / 2019 LD 2 (ATLAS) using ground-based telescopes and the Hubble and Spitzer space observatories. The…
Don’t Miss Rare Conjunction as Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury Form Cosmic Triangle
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February 24, 2021
Don’t Miss Rare Conjunction as Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury Form Cosmic Triangle
Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury are coming together in a three-planet conjunction for the second time in 2021 but it will…
Harvard Researchers Say Jupiter May Have Played а Role in Dinosaur Extinction Event
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February 16, 2021
Harvard Researchers Say Jupiter May Have Played а Role in Dinosaur Extinction Event
Scientists from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics have established the “homeland” of the cosmic body that fell to Earth and…
10 Things Your Should Know About Hot Jupiters
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January 24, 2021
10 Things Your Should Know About Hot Jupiters
Before the discovery of Hot Jupiters, no scientist had imagined that such exoplanets could exist. Judging by their given name…
NASA Spacecraft Detects FM Radio Signal Coming From Jupiter’s Largest Moon
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January 12, 2021
NASA Spacecraft Detects FM Radio Signal Coming From Jupiter’s Largest Moon
Less than a week after the Juno mission was officially re-extended for another 5 years, it has once again hit…
Jupiter Is So Big It’s Even Bigger Than Some Stars In The Universe
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January 6, 2021
Jupiter Is So Big It’s Even Bigger Than Some Stars In The Universe
Have you ever thought about Jupiter’s size and why it hasn’t become a star? If not, I suggest you open…
Don’t Miss The Great Conjunction; Today Jupiter And Saturn “Shine” As One
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December 21, 2020
Don’t Miss The Great Conjunction; Today Jupiter And Saturn “Shine” As One
It finally is time for the rare celestial phenomenon we have all been waiting for – the Great Conjunction of…
10 Mind-Boggling Photographs of Jupiter You Need To See
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December 7, 2020
10 Mind-Boggling Photographs of Jupiter You Need To See
If you look at the northwest part of the sky after sunset (southwest in the northern hemisphere), you will find…
Cosmic Encounter; Jupiter and Saturn Set To Form Phenomenon Not Visible In 800 Years
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December 4, 2020
Cosmic Encounter; Jupiter and Saturn Set To Form Phenomenon Not Visible In 800 Years
What will the end of 2020 be without another major event? This special occasion is reserved for the Great Conjunction…
How an Ancient Babylonian Map of Jupiter Helped Rewrite History
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November 1, 2020
How an Ancient Babylonian Map of Jupiter Helped Rewrite History
Babylonian astronomers calculated the motion of the planet Jupiter using an idea that led to integral calculus. This is a…
NASA Has Detected Jupiter’s Lightning Sprites For The First Time
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October 29, 2020
NASA Has Detected Jupiter’s Lightning Sprites For The First Time
NASA has been actively revealing more and more fascinating discoveries these past few days. Since Monday, we know that water…
Mars will Outhsine Jupiter this Month in a Cosmic Event That Won’t Repeat Until 2035
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October 2, 2020
Mars will Outhsine Jupiter this Month in a Cosmic Event That Won’t Repeat Until 2035
Mars will be closer to our planet and will look brighter than Jupiter and Sirius, in a spectacular cosmic phenomenon…
A Cosmic Painting: Check Out This Stunning View of Cyclones on Jupiter’s North Pole
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September 24, 2020
A Cosmic Painting: Check Out This Stunning View of Cyclones on Jupiter’s North Pole
The more we explore the solar system, the more we uncover its many wonders. Our cosmic neighborhood is a wonderful,…
Jupiter, a “Solar System” of its Own: 600 Moons Likely Orbit the Gas Giant
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September 11, 2020
Jupiter, a “Solar System” of its Own: 600 Moons Likely Orbit the Gas Giant
Of all the planets in the solar system, Jupiter is one of my favorites. Not just because of its behemoth…
Unprecedented Images Reveal Previously-Unseen Parts of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
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July 23, 2020
Unprecedented Images Reveal Previously-Unseen Parts of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Scientists have revealed the first images of the north pole of Jupiter’s gigantic moon Ganymede. NASA’s Juno mission has obtained…
Mounting Evidence of Water Vapor Columns on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
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May 12, 2020
Mounting Evidence of Water Vapor Columns on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
A new study offers mounting evidence that supports the existence of massive columns of water vapor emanating from Jupiter’s icy…
Cosmic Smile: Are Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon Aligning to form a Happy Face in the Night Sky?
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May 10, 2020
Cosmic Smile: Are Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon Aligning to form a Happy Face in the Night Sky?
According to various online claims (including the BBC), this Saturday, May 16, 2020, the Moon, and the planets Venus and…
This is One of the Best-Ever Images Of Jupiter to Date
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May 9, 2020
This is One of the Best-Ever Images Of Jupiter to Date
If Jupiter isn’t one thing, then it certainly is not calm. We could say that Jupiter is the Wild West…
Unlike any Other: Distant Exoplanet Three Times the Mass of Jupiter Found by Astronomers
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April 29, 2020
Unlike any Other: Distant Exoplanet Three Times the Mass of Jupiter Found by Astronomers
Astronomer shave discovered a supermassive planet–estimated at around three times the mass of Jupiter–orbiting a distant star. A monstrous planet…
Leading Astronomer Says “Higher Forms” of Alien Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
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February 9, 2020
Leading Astronomer Says “Higher Forms” of Alien Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
The chancellor at Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom believes it is likely that there are forms of alien…
Jupiter: The Only Planet in our Solar System That Doesn’t Orbit the Sun
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March 28, 2019
Jupiter: The Only Planet in our Solar System That Doesn’t Orbit the Sun
Jupiter, our solar system’s fifth planet from the sun, the massive gas giant that protects Earth and the inner planets…