All posts tagged "Jupiter"
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1.0KScience NewsJuno Sends Back Images Of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
The spacecraft Juno has come through, beaming back the first ever clear, close-up images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Citizen scientists have...
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1.2KScience NewsJupiter’s Great Red Spot Due For A Close-Up
For the first time, scientists are about to take an actual closer look at Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot. Well-known because of...
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1.9KScience NewsJuno Completes First And Closest Jupiter Flyby
NASA has reached Jupiter and made its first and closest flyby Saturday. There is a total of 36 flybys planned for the...
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1.9KScience NewsScientists Answer Questions About Mission To Jupiter
After a five year journey over 1.7 billion miles, the spacecraft Juno entered the orbit of Jupiter this week, beating all odds....
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1.7KScience NewsJuno Probe Captures First-Ever Video Of Jupiter’s Moons Moving
NASA’s Juno probe famously made it to Jupiter on July 4, and in the time since, has given scientists – and the...
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1.5KScience NewsMars At Its Closest To Earth On Monday
Astronomers – and people in general – should get ready to point those telescopes and binoculars at the night sky on Monday,...
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2.3KScience NewsBabylonians Discovered Astronomical Geometry Before The Europeans
Astronomers from ancient Babylonia discovered astronomical geometry some 1,400 years before Oxford’s medieval mathematicians, according to new research. Until now, 14th century...
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2.5KScience NewsDid Jupiter Eject The Ninth Planet From Our Solar System?
Astronomers have suspected that there was once a fifth giant planet in addition to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Something caused that...
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1.7KScience NewsCould Jupiter’s Shrinking Great Red Spot Disappear?
New imagery released from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals that Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot has been continuously decreasing in size. The Great...
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2.0KScience NewsBaby Jupiter Discovered By The Gemini Planet Imager
51 Eridani b, also known as 51 Eri b, was recently detected by the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), an instrument designed to analyze...
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1.8KScience NewsJupiter Destroyed Super-Earths In Shaping Our Solar System, Study Suggests
Research conducted by astronomers Gregory Laughlin and Konstantin Batygin suggests that our solar system’s lack of super-Earths, planets smaller than Neptune but...
