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The pace of space exploration appears to have been meteoric in recent years, and 2021 has some major milestones to look forward to. From maiden flights to fiery endings, long-awaited launches to history-making first steps, here are some of the biggest … Continue reading Looking ahead at the year in space 2021
Atmospheric phenomena known as “sprites” and “elves” may be spectacularly illuminating the upper cloud layers of Jupiter, according to a newly published study based on data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. These short-lived light displays have been… Continue reading Sprites and elves spotted lighting up Jupiter’s atmosphere
With storms constantly raging all over its surface and a Great Red Spot that’s been churning for centuries, Jupiter could be known as the storm capital of the solar system. Now NASA’s Juno mission has discovered two new quirks of these storms – shallow… Continue reading Strange lightning and “mushball” rain could rage in Jupiter storms
NASA has released the first images taken by its Juno deep-space probe of the north pole of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. Captured on December 26, 2019, the infrared images from the spacecraft’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument show… Continue reading Juno Jupiter probe finds glass-like ice on Ganymede’s north pole
Scientists have spent centuries pointing their instruments at Jupiter, and every now and then they make observations that not only further our understanding of the solar system’s largest planet, but astound us at the same time. Using what is known as t… Continue reading Ultra-sharp infrared images show Jupiter as a giant jack-o’-lantern
Jupiter is a gigantic ball of churning gas clouds, and that makes it hard to see what’s in the middle. It’s believed to be a relatively small, rocky core, but data from the Juno probe found that it’s less dense and more spread out than expect… Continue reading An ancient planet, 10 times bigger than Earth, may have crashed into Jupiter
Humanity has been a spacefaring species for barely sixty years now. In that brief time, we’ve fairly mastered the business of putting objects into orbit around the Earth, and done so with such gusto that a cloud of both useful and useless objects now surrounds us. Communicating with satellites in Earth orbit is almost trivial; your phone is probably listening to at least half a dozen geosynchronous GPS birds right now, and any ham radio operator can chat with the astronauts aboard the ISS with nothing more that a $30 handy-talkie and a homemade antenna.
But once our spacecraft get …read more
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: probe in Jupiter fly-by; footage of politician ‘not illegal’; Trump sued over Twitter block
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: probe in Jupiter fly-by; footage of politician ‘not illegal’; Trump sued over Twitter block
The birth of a new field of astronomy, the death of a lonely comet orbiter, and everything in between. Continue reading From Planet Nine to Proxima b, 2016 Was a Wild Year for Space
