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Catch Jupiter and Mercury side by side in the evening sky this week

Mercury and Jupiter will fit within the field of view of a pair of 10×50 binoculars (denoted by the yellow…

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When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa?

Can life survive in the solar system once the sun dies and becomes a red giant star? New research suggests…

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See Jupiter pair up with a sliver of the moon May 27

Jupiter will soon end its brilliant year-long showing on consecutive evenings with a rendezvous with an exceedingly thin and very…

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Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now — it could have held 2,000 Earths

Long before it became the giant planet we see today, Jupiter was even bigger and had a much stronger magnetic…

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‘This has left us scratching our heads’: Astronomers flummoxed by James Webb telescope’s view of ‘impossible’ auroras on Jupiter

On Christmas Day in 2023, scientists trained the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Jupiter’s auroras and captured a dazzling…

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NASA’s Europa Clipper probe snaps ghostly thermal portrait of Mars en route to Jupiter

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait of Mars…

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JWST watches auroras on Jupiter glow hundreds of times brighter than those on Earth (video)

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed glowing auroras on Jupiter like never before. Scientists pointed the James Webb Space…

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Astrophotographer captures the moon and Jupiter suspended above one of Europe’s oldest lakes (photo)

The crescent moon and Jupiter can be seen alongside prominent stars in the sky over the city of Ohrid in…

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Cyclones on Jupiter and a moon with flowing magma: NASA Juno probe’s latest discoveries are awesome

A flurry of new discoveries from NASA’s Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant’s…

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See a wafer-thin crescent moon leapfrog Jupiter this week

The delicate form of the crescent moon is set to draw close to the planet Jupiter in the post-sunset sky…

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