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The Great Red Spot Isn’t Alone Everyone has heard of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm so enormous it could swallow Earth whole. It has raged for centuries, fueled by the planet’s powerful swirling ...
A Jupiter-like planet has been found orbiting a young sun-like star in a solar system far away in what is a potentially ...
Sometime in September, Juno’s orbit will degrade naturally, and Jupiter’s gravity will pull the spacecraft in, and the atmosphere will consume it. Visit www.science.nasa.gov/mission/juno/ for the ...
Apple made the visionOS 26 release candidate available to Vision Pro developers on Tuesday, and one of the more interesting ...
From meteor showers to visible nebulas, August is primed to be an action-packed month for stargazers in the United States. And one of the highlights of the month? The impending meet-up of Jupiter and ...
Skywatchers who spotted the Jupiter-Venus conjunction on Aug. 12 are in for a dazzling display in the night sky through the end of August, with a "planet parade" building in the eastern sky, with ...
Imagine looking up at Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, and deciding to jump straight into it. It sounds like the ultimate space adventure, but the reality of plunging into this gas ...
Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like Earth. But astronomers can still assess its shape by ...
A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – sometimes more – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Both Venus and Jupiter are making ...