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Start Your Day with a Full House – Three Planets and a Pair of Crescents
The dawn sky's where it's happening. With Saturn swiftly sinking westward at dusk, bright planets have become scarce in the evening hours. But if you get up early and look east, you'll discover where...
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Mars Meets the King of the Beasts
I was up before dawn today hoping to find the returning comet 205P/Giacobini and a faint new supernova in the galaxy IC 1776 in Pisces. I was fortunate to see them both. But the morning held a pleasant...
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Guide to October’s Conjunction Mania, See Venus in Daylight
Tomorrow morning might be a good time to call for extra celestial traffic control. A slip of a crescent Moon will join a passel of planets in the dawn sky for the first of several exciting conjunctions...
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Hubble Sees Changes in Jupiter’s Red Spot, a Weird Wisp and Rare Waves
Jupiter global map created from still images from the Hubble Space TelescopeIt's been widely reported, including at Universe Today, that the apple of Jupiter's eye, the iconic Great Red Spot (GRS),...
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Is This Month’s Jupiter-Venus Pair Really a Star of Bethlehem Stand In?
Eclipse tetrads of doom. Mars, now bigger than the Full Moon each August. The killer asteroid of the month that isn’t. Amazing Moons of all stripes, Super, Blood, Black and Blue…The internet never lets...
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Stunning Planetary Trio Pictures from Around the World
Have you seen the views in the morning skies this week, with three planets huddling together at dawn? Just one degree separated planets Jupiter and Venus, with Mars sneaking in nearby....
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Protecting Juno’s Heart
Each new probe we launch into space follows a finely-tuned, predetermined trajectory that opens up a new avenue of understanding into our solar system and our universe. The results from each probe...
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Earth May Be “Hairy” with Dark Matter
I'm losing mine, but the Solar System may be way hairier than we ever thought, with thick crops of filamentary dark matter streaming through Earth's core and back out again even as you read this. A new...
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Understanding Juno’s Orbit: An Interview with NASA’s Scott Bolton
The intense radiation around Jupiter has shaped every aspect of the Juno mission, especially Juno's orbit. Data shows that there is a gap between the radiation belts that encircle Jupiter, and...
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Jupiter Not the Planetary Protector We Thought it Was?
I've always liked the idea that Jupiter has acted like a protector to its little brother, Earth. That it has used its massive gravitational pull to divert asteroids and comets from a collision course...
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Hubble Directly Measures Rotation of Cloudy ‘Super-Jupiter’
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet 2M1207b by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. This is the first measurement of the...
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Double Shadow Transit Season for the Jovian Moons Begins
Watching the inky-black shadow of a Jovian moon slide across the cloud-tops of Jupiter is an unforgettable sight. Two is always better than one, and as the largest planet in our solar system heads...
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By Jove: Our 2016 Guide to Jupiter at Opposition
Ready to explore the largest planet in our solar system? The month of March heralds the return of Jupiter to evening skies. Early March 2016 sees the planet Jupiter starting off the month less than one...
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Solar Storms Ignite Aurora On Jupiter
The Earthly Northern Lights are beautiful and astounding, but when it comes to planetary light shows, what happened at Jupiter in 2011 might take the cake. In 2011, a coronal mass ejection (CME)...
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Jupiter Just Got Nailed By Something
Jupiter may be the biggest planet, but it sure seems to get picked on. On March 17, amateur astronomer Gerrit Kernbauer of Mödling, Austria, a small town just south of Vienna, was filming Jupiter...
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How Do We Terraform Jupiter’s Moons?
Continuing with our “Definitive Guide to Terraforming“, Universe Today is happy to present to our guide to terraforming Jupiter's Moons. Much like terraforming the inner Solar System, it might be...
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Take A Look Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxndu3hVg2o[/embed]Jupiter's Great Red Spot is easily one of the most iconic images in our Solar System, next to Saturn's rings. The Great Red Spot and the cloud...
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7 Days Out From Orbital Insertion, NASA’s Juno Images Jupiter and its Largest...
Now just 7 days out from a critical orbital insertion burn, NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno orbiter is closing in fast on the massive gas giant. And as its coming into focus the spacecraft has begun...
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Very Large Telescope Images Of Jupiter Prepare Us For Juno Arrival
Launching back in 2011, NASA's Juno mission has spent the past five years traversing the gulf that lies between Earth and Jupiter. When it arrives (in just a few days time!), it will be the second...
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Juno and the Deep Space Network: Bringing The Data Home
The much-anticipated arrival of NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter is almost here. Juno will answer many questions about Jupiter, but at the cost of a mission profile full of challenges. One of those...
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