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Finite Light — Why We Always Look Back In Time
Beads of rainwater on a poplar leaf act like lenses, focusing light and enlarging the leaf’s network of veins. Moving at 186,000 miles per second, light from the leaf arrives at your eye 0.5 nanosecond...
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That’s Strange. Jupiter’s Northern and Southern Auroras Pulse Independently
In addition to being the largest and most massive planet in our Solar system, Jupiter is also one of its more mysterious bodies. This is certainly apparent when it comes to Jupiter’s powerful auroras,...
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Gaze in Wonder at Jupiter’s Mysterious Geometric Polar Storms
When the Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in July 2016, it quickly got to work. Among the multitude of stunning images of the planet were our first ever images of Jupiter’s poles. And what we saw...
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Io Afire With Volcanoes Under Juno’s Gaze
An amazingly active Io, Jupiter’s “pizza moon” shows multiple volcanoes and hot spots in this photo taken with Juno’s infrared camera. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / ASI / INAF /JIRAM / Roman...
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Asteroids Smack Jupiter More Often Than Astronomers Thought
Pow: The July 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: R. Evans/J. Trauger/H. Hammel/HST Comet Science Team/NASA. Are you keeping a eye on...
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By Jove: Jupiter at Opposition for 2018
A recent capture of Jupiter from April 21st. Image credit and copyright: Efrain Morales Rivera. It’s a question I’ve fielded lots this weekend leading up to last night’s April Pink Full Moon, and one I...
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There was Evidence for Europa’s Geysers Hiding in Plain Sight in Old...
Jupiter’s moon Europa continues to fascinate and amaze! In 1979, the Voyager missions provided the first indications that an interior ocean might exist beneath it’s icy surface. Between 1995 and 2003,...
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Planetpalooza: All Bright Planets Visible in the July Dusk Sky
Venus and the waxing crescent Moon above the Grand Palais in Paris, France from May 17th. Image credit: Gwenael Blanck Missed the planets in the dusk sky in early 2018? This summer’s astronomical...
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Juno Data Shows that Some of Jupiter’s Moons are Leaving “Footprints” in its...
Since it arrived in orbit around Jupiter in July of 2016, the Juno mission has been sending back vital information about the gas giant’s atmosphere, magnetic field and weather patterns. With every...
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NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Another Possible Volcano on Jupiter’s Moon Io
When the Juno spacecraft arrived in orbit around Jupiter in 2016, it became the second spacecraft in history to study Jupiter directly – the first being the Galileo probe, which orbited Jupiter between...
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Twelve New Moons Discovered Around Jupiter, and One of Them is Pretty Odd!
The gas giant Jupiter, which was named in honor of the king of the gods in the Roman pantheon, has always lived up to its name. In addition to being the largest planet in the Solar System – with two...
View ArticleAnother Juno Flyby, Another Amazing Sequence of Images of Jupiter
With its latest flyby of Jupiter, the Juno mission took more pictures with its JunoCam, which citizen scientists have once again processed to create a breathtaking image of the planet's atmosphere. The...
View ArticleJunoCam Wows Us Again With Detailed Images of the Great Red Spot
Dazzling images from the JunoCam show the intricate detail of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Is the Solar System's longest-lived storm shrinking? The post JunoCam Wows Us Again With Detailed Images of the...
View ArticleBeing Cassini. Experience What It Was Like to Fly Past Jupiter and Saturn and...
What would it be like to be onboard the Cassini orbiter as it made its way around Jupiter and Saturn and their moons? Pretty cool. Now a new video made from Cassini images pieces together parts of that...
View ArticleJuno Saw One of Io’s Volcanoes Erupting During its Recent Flyby
NASA's Juno mission recently acquired some stunning photographs of Io before it plunged into Jupiter's shadow. The post Juno Saw One of Io’s Volcanoes Erupting During its Recent Flyby appeared first on...
View ArticleJupiter 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 2.5 times as much mass as all the other planets combined. To top it off, it’s named...
View ArticleThe Latest Insanely Beautiful Image of Jupiter Captured by Juno
There’s something about Jupiter that mesmerizes those who gaze at it. It’s intricate, dazzling clouds are a visual representation of the laws of nature that’s hard to turn away from. And even though...
View ArticleEven Though it Hasn’t Launched Yet, JUICE Took its First Images of Jupiter...
Is there a more complicated and sophisticated technological engineering project than a spacecraft? Maybe a particle accelerator or a fusion power project. But other than those two, the answer is...
View ArticleYes, This is Actually the Shadow of Io Passing Across the Surface of Jupiter.
The JunoCam onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft continues to provide we Earthbound humans with a steady stream of stunning images of Jupiter. We can’t get enough of the gas giant’s hypnotic, other-worldly...
View ArticleClouds On Jupiter Rising Up Above the Surrounding Atmosphere
Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter’s clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise up above the surrounding cloud tops. The two bright spots in the right center of this image are much...
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