Venus and Jupiter Conjunction: Planets to almost touch in night sky
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| 04/30/2022 | Georgina Rannard
Look up in the sky at the right moment this weekend and you could see two of the solar system's brightest planets almost touching. Venus
and Jupiter will be millions of miles apart, but from Earth they will appear close to colliding. This planetary conjunction happens annually but this year they will appear much closer than usual. The same spectacle won't occur again like this until 2039. Just the naked eye or binoculars should be enough to see it in a clear sky. After Saturday, the two planets will go their separate ways as they drift apart in the coming...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Moon Shadow on Jupiter
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| 27 Apr, 2022 | Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing & License: Thomas Thomopoulos
Explanation: What is that large dark spot on Jupiter? It's the shadow of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. When
Jupiter's moons cross between the Jovian giant and the Sun, they created shadows just like when the Earth's moon crosses between the Earth and the Sun. Also like on Earth, if you were in a dark shadow on Jupiter, you would see a moon completely eclipse the Sun. Unlike on Earth, moon shadows occur most days on Jupiter -- what's more unusual is that a spacecraft was close enough to record one with a high-resolution image. That spacecraft, Juno, was passing so...
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April's sky brings dance of 4 morning planets: See Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn.
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| Joe Rao
The month starts off with three bright planets clustered low in our east-southeast sky just before sunrise. Venus,
Saturn and Mars are within six degrees of separation, but each morning thereafter the configuration noticeably changes. Mars and Saturn approach each other more closely than the apparent diameter of the moon on April 5. A view of the predawn sky on April 19, 2022 in Stellarium shows the alignment of Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn. (Image credit: Stellarium) The main event comes during the final week of April with the approach of magnitude -2 Jupiter to magnitude -4 Venus, seven times...
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Enigmatic High-Energy X-Rays Have Been Spied Coming From Jupiter
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| February 11, 2022 | MICHELLE STARR
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2022 ======================================== Jupiter has finally been observed spitting out X-rays in high-energy wavelengths. Emanating
from the giant planet's permanent auroras, and detected by NASA's space-based X-ray telescope NuSTAR, the emissions are the most energetic light seen coming from any planet in the Solar System (aside from Earth). The detection could shed light on the most powerful auroras in the Solar System, and solves a longstanding mystery: why the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses spacecraft didn't detect any Jovian X-rays in its nearly three decades of operation between 1990 and 2009. Jupiter's auroras constitute an absolutely fascinating phenomenon. At both its poles, the...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot
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| 9 Jan, 2022 | Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, OPAL Program, STScI; Processing: Karol Masztalerz
Explanation: What will become of Jupiter's Great Red Spot? Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system's largest world with about 320 times the mass of planet Earth. Jupiter is home to one of the largest and longest lasting storm systems known, the Great Red Spot (GRS), visible to the left. The
GRS is so large it could swallow Earth, although it has been shrinking. Comparison with historical notes indicate that the storm spans only about one third of the exposed surface area it had 150 years ago. NASA's Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program has been monitoring the storm more...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Giant Storms and High Clouds on Jupiter
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| 29 Dec, 2021 | Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing & License: Kevin M. Gill
Explanation: What and where are these large ovals? They
are rotating storm clouds on Jupiter imaged last month by NASA's Juno spacecraft. In general, higher clouds are lighter in color, and the lightest clouds visible are the relatively small clouds that dot the lower oval. At 50 kilometers across, however, even these light clouds are not small. They are so high up that they cast shadows on the swirling oval below. The featured image has been processed to enhance color and contrast. Large ovals are usually regions of high pressure that span over 1000 kilometers and can last for years....
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No taxes, no masks, no mass looting! Is Pelosi picking up Cali stakes and moving to DeSantis country? Speaker of the House is 'splashing out on $25m Jupiter Island mansion just down road from Tiger Woods'
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UK Daily Mail ^
| 11/24/2021 | Ruth Styles and Jose Lambiet
She is one of California's longest-serving congresswomen - and one of the richest - but Nancy Pelosi could be planning to ditch the Golden State for retirement in Florida, DailyMail.com can reveal. Sources
have told DailyMail.com Pelosi, 81, and husband Paul are splashing out $25m on a palatial six-bedroom mansion in Hobe Sound, Florida. The stunning classical-style mansion boasts nine bathrooms, a 255ft private beach and a colonnaded courtyard. Photos show the cream-painted property also has a kitchen finished with marble counter tops, a private cinema, gym and swimming pool, and sits in 2.5 acres of landscaped grounds. Neighbors in...
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Facts about the biggest moon: moon of Jupiter
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| Devansh
My dear Brothers, have you ever thought about how many moons are there in our solar system?Nearly, 200+But the main point is: do you know which is the biggest? (List
of 10 biggest moons)Ganymede moon if Jupiter. You can understand this simply by this example.If Ganymede starts orbiting then it would be a planet but it is bigger than mercury and has very little difference from mars. This is one of the 10 facts about different moons. You can others also: Here.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Jupiter Rotates
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| 26 Oct, 2021 | Video Credit & Copyright: JL Dauvergne; Music: Oro Aqua (Benoit Reeves)
Explanation: Observe the graceful twirl of our Solar System's largest planet. Many
interesting features of Jupiter's enigmatic atmosphere, including dark belts and light zones, can be followed in detail. A careful inspection will reveal that different cloud layers rotate at slightly different speeds. The famous Great Red Spot is not visible at first -- but soon rotates into view. Other smaller storm systems occasionally appear. As large as Jupiter is, it rotates in only 10 hours. Our small Earth, by comparison, takes 24 hours to complete a spin cycle. The featured high-resolution time-lapse video was captured over five nights earlier...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter
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| 11 Oct, 2021 | Video Credit: Images: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SWRI, MSSS; Animation: Koji Kuramura, Gerald Eichstädt, Mik
Explanation: What would it be like to fly over the largest moon in the Solar System? In June, the robotic Juno spacecraft flew past Jupiter's huge moon Ganymede and took images that have been digitally constructed into a detailed flyby. As
the featured video begins, Juno swoops over the two-toned surface of the 2,000-km wide moon, revealing an icy alien landscape filled with grooves and craters. The grooves are likely caused by shifting surface plates, while the craters are caused by violent impacts. Continuing on in its orbit, Juno then performed its 34th close pass over Jupiter's clouds. The digitally-constructed...
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Dog Beach in Jupiter, FL (video link)
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usetube ^
| 9-17-21 | Jupiter Dog Beach
This is my beach (another link here), and I love all the dogs. The
owners do a great job of cleaning up after them.
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is getting faster! Winds around the edge of the storm have increased in speed by 8% since 2009 and now exceed 400mph, NASA reveals
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| 7/28/2021 | Ryan Morrison
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland analysed the Hubble Space Telescope's regular 'storm reports' and discovered winds in the 'high-speed ring' on the edge of the storm had increased by eight per cent since 2009. In
contrast, the winds near the red spot's innermost region are moving significantly more slowly, 'like someone cruising lazily on a sunny Sunday afternoon,' said NASA. The actual changes aren't that much over the 11 years of measurements, working out at an increase of less than 1.6mph per Earth year of observation. 'We're talking about such a small change that if you didn't...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Video: Flash on Jupiter
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| 17 Sep, 2021 | Video Credit & Copyright: T. Humbert, S. Barré, A. Desmougin & D. Walliang (Société Lorraine d'Astro
Explanation: There has been a flash on Jupiter. A few days ago, several groups monitoring our Solar System's largest planet noticed a two-second long burst of light. Such
flashes have been seen before, with the most famous being a series of impactor strikes in 1994. Then, fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck Jupiter leaving dark patches that lasted for months. Since then, at least seven impacts have been recorded on Jupiter -- usually discovered by amateur astronomers. In the featured video, variations in the Earth's atmosphere cause Jupiter's image to shimmer when, suddenly, a bright flash appears just left of...
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Something Large Just Smashed Into Jupiter
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| 17 September 2021 | MICHELLE STARR
Poor old Jupiter. It's just hanging out there, being a gas giant, shepherding trojans, minding its own business, and boom. Smacked
upside by a stray space rock. That's not necessarily unusual for Jupiter, actually. What is unusual is that someone happens to be looking and filming at just the right time - and this month, that happened, with sky-watchers around the globe catching an explosion in the planet's upper atmosphere. On 13 September 2021, at 22:39 UT, amateur astronomers recorded the bright flash of what appeared to be a Jupiter impact - namely Harald Paleske from Germany, who was recording...
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Jupiter is at its biggest and brightest this week
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| 08/19/2021 | By Elizabeth Howell
Spotting Jupiter is a breeze this week for the naked eye as it reaches its biggest and brightest moment in the night sky. Telescope-hunters
will also get a treat looking for moons and atmospheric bands. The gas giant planet will be at opposition today (Aug. 19), meaning it is directly opposite the sun in Earth's sky. Jupiter also makes its closest approach of the year to Earth during opposition. The planet will appear at magnitude -2.9, well within naked-eye range and outshining any star in Earth's sky except, of course, for the sun. To spot Jupiter, look to the left...
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Hubble finds first evidence of water vapor on Jupiter's moon Ganymede
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https :// phys . org / news / 2021 - 07 - hubble - evidence - vapor - jupiter - moon . html ^
| 26 Jul 2021 | ESA/Hubble Information Centre
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates—that is, turns from solid to gas... ...Previous research has offered circumstantial evidence that Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, contains more
water than all of Earth's oceans. However, temperatures there are so cold that water on the surface is frozen solid.... ...Roth and his team then took a closer look at the relative distribution of the aurora in the UV images. Ganymede's surface temperature varies strongly throughout the day,...
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Cop Calls Backup for 'Drone' Following Her Only to Find Out It's Planet Jupiter
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| 7/19/21 AT 5:53 PM EDT | SARA SANTORA ON
Arookie police officer in Glasgow, Scotland, was recently embarrassed to discover that the "drone" she thought was pursuing her on her way to a shopping center was actually just the planet Jupiter. Local news outlets report that the embarrassing mix-up has become the talk of her station. The
Daily Record reported Saturday that the officer left her station around midnight Tuesday when she first saw the bright light she believed to be a drone. She attempted to "lose the drone" on her way to a local shopping center; however, she failed. Afraid, she eventually called the general complaints number for...
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Facts about Jupiter
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| 15 July | Devansh
The Basketball planet ( biggest planet)Let's know some interesting facts about Jupiter's size-1.Do you know that by volume 1000 of earth can fit inside of it?2. Even
if all planets combined, they can fit into this big planet.3. If Earth were a grape then Jupiter would be basketball by size.Read some more amazing facts about Jupiter - 19 amazing facts about Jupiter planet- read now.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Face in the Clouds of Jupiter from Juno
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| 8 Jun, 2021 | Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major
Explanation: What do you see in the clouds of Jupiter? On the largest scale, circling the planet, Jupiter has alternating light zones and reddish-brown belts. Rising
zone gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, usually swirls around regions of high pressure. Conversely, falling belt gas usually whirls around regions of low pressure, like cyclones and hurricanes on Earth. Belt storms can form into large and long-lasting white ovals and elongated red spots. NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft captured most of these cloud features in 2017 during perijove 6, its sixth pass over the giant planet in its looping 2-month orbit. But it is...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Aurorae and Lightning on Jupiter
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| 24 Mar, 2021 | Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI; Text: Natalia Lewandowska
Explanation: Why does so much of Jupiter's lightning occur near its poles? Similar
to Earth, Jupiter experiences both aurorae and lightning. Different from Earth, though, Jupiter's lightning usually occurs near its poles -- while much of Earth's lightning occurs near its equator. To help understand the difference, NASA's Juno spacecraft, currently orbiting Jupiter, has observed numerous aurora and lightning events. The featured image, taken by Juno's Stellar Reference Unit camera on 2018 May 24, shows Jupiter's northern auroral oval and several bright dots and streaks. An eye-catching event is shown in the right inset image -- which is a flash...
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