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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet – sort of a celestial tweener. But it turns out that was not the full story. Researchers now have taken a fresh look at that brown dwarf and learned that it actually is not a single brown dwarf but rather […]
By Huw GRIFFITH PASADENA, United States, April 12, 2024 (AFP) – US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter’s icy moons as part of humanity’s hunt for extra-terrestrial life. The Clipper spacecraft is due to blast off in October bound for Europa, one of dozens of moons orbiting the Solar System’s biggest planet, and the nearest spot in our celestial neighborhood that could offer a perch […]
by Juliette COLLEN PARIS, France (AFP) — The solar system’s two biggest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, came within planetary kissing range in Monday’s evening sky, an intimacy that will not occur again until 2080. This “great conjunction”, as it is known to astronomers, occurred fortuitously on the winter solstice for those in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of summer in the global south. The two planets were, in fact, more than 730 million kilometers […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) –The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Wednesday released a series of stunning images of a raging storm on Jupiter, known as the Great Red Spot, snapped earlier this week as an unmanned probe zipped by. The US space agency’s Juno spacecraft flew over the storm late Monday, offering humanity’s closest look yet at the iconic feature of our solar system’s largest planet. “For hundreds of years scientists have been observing, […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — An unmanned National Aeronautics Space Administration spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet’s Great Red Spot. The flyby of the Juno spacecraft, surveiling the 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm, is scheduled for 9:55 pm Monday (0155 GMT Tuesday). “Jupiter’s mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter,” said […]
Reuters — Jupiter’s atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system’s largest planet, researchers said on Thursday (May 25), publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant. The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in […]
REUTERS — NASA’S Juno spacecraft sent its first in-orbit view of Jupiter after it capped a five-year journey to the planet on July 4 with a do-or-die engine burn that looped it into orbit to probe the origins of the biggest planet in the solar system and how it impacted the rise of life on Earth, the U.S. space agency said. Juno’s visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine […]
Graphic illustrating the US probe Juno, which moved into orbit around Jupiter on Monday. (AFP Graphics)
by Kerry SHERIDAN MIAMI, United States (AFP) — NASA celebrated a key triumph on Tuesday as its $1.1 billion Juno spacecraft successfully slipped into orbit around Jupiter on a mission to probe the origin of the solar system. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California erupted in cheers as the solar observatory entered its aimed-for orbit around the biggest planet in our cosmic neighborhood at 11:53 pm (0353 GMT Tuesday). “We are in it,” hollered […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — NASA’s Juno spacecraft on Monday began its attempt to orbit Jupiter, the largest and most massive planet in the solar system, the US space agency announced. The unmanned solar-powered observatory began firing its main engine to slow down enough to be captured into Jupiter’s orbit at 11:18 pm (0318 GMT), said officials at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We see the expected sharp shift upward in the Doppler residuals indicating the engine […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A $1.1 billion NASA spacecraft called Juno must dodge debris and extreme radiation Monday as it attempts to orbit Jupiter, on a high-stakes mission to probe the origin of the solar system. Juno is expected to arrive late Monday in the vicinity of the largest planet in our cosmic neighborhood, five years after the unmanned solar-powered observatory launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. “We are barrelling down on […]
Sa patuloy ng paglalayag ng National Aeronautics and Space Administration o NASA gamit ang Juno spacecraft, uumpisahan na bukas, July 4 ng NASA ang pakikipagtulungan sa mga nangungunang amateurs at mga professional astronomers sa buong mundo. Kabilang dito ang Pinoy amateur astronomer mula sa Cebu na si Christopher Go, isang leading planetary imager na mahigit labindalawang taon nang nagsasagawa ng obserbasyon sa planetang Jupiter.
