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Juno’s Entire 42nd Flight Past Jupiter in One Amazing Mosaic
On May 23, 2022, the Juno spacecraft made another close pass of Jupiter, with its suite of scientific instruments collecting…
Ganymede Casts a Long Shadow Across the Surface of Jupiter
What is that large dark smudge on Jupiter’s side? It may remind you of a certain scene from the sci-fi…
This Incredible Photo of the Sun is Made up of 150,000 Individual Photographs
You’re looking at a 300-megapixel photo of our Sun. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy used a specially modified telescope, taking over 150,000…
Just Look at the Jaw-Dropping Detail of These Storms on Jupiter
The latest images from the Juno mission at Jupiter includes views of giant storms and vortexes on the gas giant…
Stare Straight Down Into a Giant Storm on Jupiter
A new batch of images recently arrived at Earth from JunoCam, the visible light camera on board the Juno spacecraft…
Perseverance’s Landing Seen in Full Color, Thanks to Citizen Science
A month on, we’re all still buzzing about the Perseverance rover’s perfect landing in Jezero Crater on Mars, back on…
Astronomers find 100 brown dwarfs in our neighborhood
Brown dwarfs are smallish objects sitting somewhere between stars and planets, making them notoriously hard to find. But a recent…
Five Space and Astronomy Activities to do at Home During the Coronavirus Outbreak
We’re in uncharted territory as the world faces the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. While the medical community is on the front…
Hubble is the Ultimate Multitasker: Discovering Asteroids While it’s Doing Other Observations
It looks like a poster of the famous Hubble Deep Field, marked with white streaks by a child, or put…
Jupiter or Earth? Which One’s Which, and Why Do They Look so Similar?
Jupiter: a massive, lifeless gas giant out there on the other side of the asteroid belt. It's a behemoth, containing…