Jupiter

You can see the moon shine with Jupiter, Saturn and Mars before dawn this week. Here’s how.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2020
It happens April 14, 15 and 16!

By David Aragorn
Jupiter throws comets and asteroids towards Earth like a ‘sniper’, scientist warns 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 14, 2020
It was once thought that the gas giant Jupiter protected Earth from asteroids and other deadly space objects.

By David Aragorn
Saturn overtakes Jupiter as host to most moons in solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 10, 2019
The gas giant has 82 moons, surpassing the 79 known to orbit its larger neighbour

By David Aragorn
NASA Wants To Land On Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 8, 2019
The top priority of a robotic lander mission to Jupiter’s potentially life-supporting moon Europa should be investigating the composition and chemistry of its subsurface ocean, scientists say.

By David Aragorn
Juno is Afraid to Death of Jupiter’s Shadow. So it Fired its Thruster for Over 10 Hours to Avoid It.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 4, 2019
In a death-defying maneuver for the spacecraft, NASA’s Juno has completed an unprecedented and unplanned engine burn. The purpose? To save the spacecraft’s “life,” or at least the rest of its mission to Jupiter.

By David Aragorn
ALMA images show what’s happening beneath Jupiter’s storms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 6, 2019
New radio images made with the ALMA telescope provide a look at what’s going on beneath Jupiter’s colorful storms and swirling clouds.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter may have been smashed by head-on collision with massive young planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 16, 2019
An ancient impact with a planetary embryo changed the core of the gas giant forever.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Behaving Strangely 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 12, 2019
For a time, it looked as though the planet’s defining feature might be on the verge of extinction.

By David Aragorn
Is the Great Red Spot Unraveling?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 22, 2019
Around the world, amateur astronomers are monitoring a strange phenomenon on the verge of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS).

By David Aragorn
Jupiter’s unknown journey revealed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2019
It is known that gas giants around other stars are often located very near their sun. According to accepted theory, these gas planets were formed far away and subsequently migrated to an orbit closer to the star.

By David Aragorn