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Jupiter: Latest Discoveries and Photos
Learn the latest discoveries about Jupiter and the Jovian moons and rings. The gas giant Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.
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Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter and one of the four so-called Galilean moons.
Jupiter’s fifth moon is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
The Juno spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter in 2016.
In the coming years, commercial space ventures hope to send robot space probes to mine valuable material from the asteroids.
S/2010 J 2 is barely 1 mile across.
The new map raises as many questions about the mysterious moon as it answers.
Skywatcher P-M Heden took this spectacular photo from Sweden’s capital Stockholm on March 11.
The space telescope would observe the event in sunlight bouncing off Jupiter.
Scientists would love to find a place on Earth that resembles the sulfur-laden surface of Europa. And now they have.
NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) caught Jupiter, Mercury and the Pleiades Star Cluster converging within its camera's field of view.
Tarter will begin fundraising for the SETI Institute full-time.
Researchers are keying in on methane as a possible indicator of alien life.
The Juno spacecraft was beyond the orbit of Mars when it took the picture.
Jupiter's gravity kept Vesta from hooking up with many other protoplanets.
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made a number of inventions and discoveries that remain important to astronomy and science in general today.
Skywatcher and photographer Stefano De Rosa snapped this view of his three children enjoying the night sky.
This up close and personal look at the gas giants and their moons was stitched together by Sander van den Berg using imagery captured by NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecrafts. Van den Berg named the black and white piece 'Outer Space'.
Test your knowledge of these leftovers from the solar system's birth.
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