From Planet Nine to Proxima b, 2016 Was a Wild Year for Space
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
Category Archives: Juno
The Nine Space Gadgets NASA’s Juno Orbiter Is Using to Study Jupiter
Magnetometers, cameras, and spectrographs, oh my! Continue reading The Nine Space Gadgets NASA’s Juno Orbiter Is Using to Study Jupiter
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Set for Fourth of July Arrival at Jupiter
The coolest Fourth of July party of all is going down in Jupiter orbit. Continue reading NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Set for Fourth of July Arrival at Jupiter
Hackaday Links: July 3, 2016
This week, Popular Mechanics published cutaway diagrams of ships that will be seen in Star Trek: Beyond, released later this month. This is your cue for spoilers for the remainder of this paragraph. The USS Franklin looks suspiciously like – and was likely built after – the NX-01, the titular ship of Star Trek: Enterprise. The Abrams-verse Franklin was the first Warp 4 ship, yet the prime universe NX-01 was the first Warp 5 ship, with previous ships having trouble reaching Warp 2. We must now consider the Abrams-verse Trek is not a parallel universe to prime-universe Trek …read more
Check Out These Images of Jupiter’s Glowing Cloud Layers
The new images give us a sneak peek at what Juno will witness as it orbits the gas giant. Continue reading Check Out These Images of Jupiter’s Glowing Cloud Layers
See Jupiter’s Northern Lights at the Height of a Solar Storm
Exploring the relationship between planets’ magnetospheres and solar winds could ultimately help identify habitable exoplanets. Continue reading See Jupiter’s Northern Lights at the Height of a Solar Storm