Watch Juno Enter Jupiter Orbit Live
This Fourth of July, NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter after an almost five-year journey. News briefings, photo opportunities and other media events will be held at NASA’s…
Category Archives: Jupiter
Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Triple-Moon Conjunction
(NASA) – Hubble Space Telescope captured a rare look at three of Jupiter’s largest moons parading across the banded face of the gas-giant planet: Europa, Callisto, and Io. These so-called…
Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot Shrinking, Could Disappear
(NASA) If you have not taken the time to look through a telescope at the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter you should do it, if you wait to long it…
Hubble Sees Water Venting from Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Made famous in the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey Jupiter’s Moon Europa may make truth out of the science fiction movie. We have not heard the message from the movie…
Hubble finds water on distant worlds
(Source NASA) – Using the powerful eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The…
Moon, Jupiter Close Approach Monday-Closest until 2026
The U.S. Presidential inauguration will get a special show Monday as the Moon and Jupiter will appear very close in the sky. The waxing gibbous phase moon, appearing 78 percent illuminated,…
WISE Telescope adds color to Jupiter Asteroids
Wide-field Infrared Explorer reveals that the Jovian Trojans asteroids are uniformly dark with a hint of burgundy color, and have matte surfaces that reflect little sunlight. There is a group…
Jupiter’s Smallest Known Moon
Details of Jupiter’s smallest known moon have been unveiled. The moon, S/2012 J 2, was discovered in September 2010 along with one other moon called S/2010 J1.. The moon has a diameter of about 1.2…
