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The Sky This Week from April 4 to 11: Catch your last views of Uranus
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, April 4This evening, the roughly half-illuminated face of the ...
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Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball'
A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.
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Astronaut Kellie Gerardi's next mission: How will it compare to her first space flight?
The two-hour flight will launch from Spaceport America in New Mexico, offering Gerardi another opportunity to view Earth from space. JUPITER − Kellie Gerardi, a citizen-scientist astronaut and a ...
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NASA's Juno sends back first view from Jupiter's orbit
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Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere
Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...
A Blast of Wind From the Sun Squished Jupiter’s Magnetic Shielding
Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers ...
Jupiter’s Defenses Collapse Under Massive Solar Storm, Scientists Shocked by 500°C Heat Surge
Jupiter got body-slammed by the solar wind, and scientists have finally caught it in action. A massive solar event compressed ...
Solar wind compresses Jupiter's magnetosphere, creating a hot region spanning half the planet's circumference
"The solar wind squished Jupiter's magnetic shield like a giant squash ball. This created a super-hot region that spans half ...
New distant warm Jupiter discovered with TESS
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter ...