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Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...
Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient lake Ohrid in northern Macedonia on the night of April 29, complete with a pair of stargazing swans ...
Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers recently documented stellar winds from the Sun, squishing the planet’s ...
A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.
Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has long intrigued scientists seeking to understand its mysterious origins.
But the effect is even more intense on Jupiter, thanks to the influence of the gas giant's absolutely ungodly magnetosphere. At approximately 15 times wider than the Sun — and about 20,000 times ...
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes during the spacecraft's 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan. 28 ...
Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient ... shots by the shore of Lake Ohrid. As the sun was setting below the horizon, I spotted ...