Jupiter is made of mostly hydrogen and helium gas. If you tried to land on Jupiter, it would be a bad idea. You’d face extremely…
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Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury visible from UK during triple conjunction
Look up this week! Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury will all be visible from the UK due to a rare triple conjunction that won’t happen again…
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Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn are clustering in the night sky in a rare, three-planet conjunction event. Here's how to see it on Monday.
Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn are aligned in the night sky, appearing closer together than they've been since 2000. When three planets move into such a…
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A Winter Solstice, a Meteor Shower, Jupiter and Saturn Walk Into Your Night Sky
While it’s been a terrible year in a lot of ways, 2020 has had some impressive astronomical occurrences. Remember Comet NEOWISE? Or when Betelgeuse dimmed…
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Jupiter and Saturn Head for Closest Visible Alignment in 800 Years
For months, Saturn and Jupiter have appeared to be courting, as the giant celestial bodies have gradually drawn nearer in the night sky. Over the…
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Jupiter and Saturn will appear as a brightly-shining 'double planet'
‘Star of Bethlehem’ to appear in the sky on Christmas week: Jupiter and Saturn will conjoin together as a brightly-shining ‘double planet’ for the first…
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A ‘Front-Row Seat’ to the Birth of a Comet
As Douglas Adams once said: Space is big. Really big. Consequently, scientists see only tiny slivers of space at any given moment, so on those…
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Jupiter and Saturn to get closer in night sky than in nearly 800 years
Planets to align over Christmas: Jupiter and Saturn will get closer to each other in Earth’s night sky than they have been for nearly 800…
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Jupiter's moon Europa may glow in the dark
Jupiter’s water-filled moon Europa may glow green and blue in the night sky, according to new research from Nasa. By day, the Solar System’s sixth-largest…
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Jupiter at its brightest – how to see the gas giant from your house tonight
Jupiter may be several million miles away from us, but you’ll get your best chance of the year to see it in the night sky…
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Subsurface oceans on Jupiter's moon could hold alien life, scientists believe
The interior ocean in Jupiter’s moon Europa may be able to sustain life, Nasa scientists believe. Their work is based on computer simulations of the…
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Stunning image of Jupiter turns the gas giant into a 'jack-o-lantern'
Stunning ‘lucky’ image of Jupiter taken in infrared turns the gas giant into a ‘jack-o-lantern’ and reveals how the planet’s tumultuous atmosphere creates 50-mile thick…
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Mars, Saturn and Jupiter align in the dawn sky next to the moon
Skywatchers who rose early this morning were treated to a special sight as three planets were visible in the sky alongside the moon. Mars, Jupiter…
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft snaps stunning photo of ‘chaotic’ storm on Jupiter
At first glance at this image, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it as a surrealist painting. But the image of Jupiter is very much real,…
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Isn’t Dead Yet
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking, but that does not necessarily mean that it is dying. Earlier this year, amateur astronomers caught the red spot…
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft snaps stunning photo of Jupiter’s swirling cloud tops
At first glance at this image, you’d been forgiven for mistaking it as showing milk swirling in a cup of coffee. But the beautiful swirls…
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NASA captures incredible image of moon shadow on Jupiter during solar eclipse
NASA has captured an incredible image of the shadow if one of Jupiter's moons, Io, on the surface on the planet during a solar eclipse.…
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An amateur astronomer accidentally recorded a rare flash on Jupiter. The culprit turned out to be a 450-ton meteor.
An amateur astronomeraccidentally captured video of amassive collision onJupiter in August. A new analysis of that video reveals that the flash came from a 450-tonmeteor…
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NASA reveals stunning photo of the moon and Jupiter in the skies over the Alps
The Alps are often the subjects of stunning landscape photos, but a recent image of the mountain range has two additional beauties to look at.…
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Jupiter collided with still-forming planet 4.5B years ago: 'One-in-a-trillion probability'
Fox News Flash top headlines for August 16 Fox News Flash top headlines for August 16 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com The…
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A new NASA portrait of Jupiter reveals its disappearing Great Red Spot in unprecedented color
NASA has released a new image ofJupiter that shows the bands of the planet’s atmosphere inunprecedented color. The photo also highlights the planet’s Great Red…
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Incredible image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Hubble telescope
Incredible new image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Hubble telescope reveals a high-definition view of the solar system’s largest planet Image taken as part of…
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Jupiter and FOUR of its moons will shine in the sky all month long
Jupiter and FOUR of its moons will shine in the night sky all month long as planet reaches its closest point to Earth Jupiter will…
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NASA’s Hubble takes stunning image of Great Dark Spot on Neptune for first time
NASA ’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a ‘Great Dark Spot’ on Neptune for the first time. Like Jupiter ’s Great…
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Venus, Saturn and Jupiter will all be visible this weekend – how to see them
This weekend, star-gazers might notice three mysteriously bright ‘stars’ in the night sky. These ‘stars’ aren’t actually stars at all, but instead are three planets…
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Nuclear-powered ‘bot’ could search for life on Jupiter’s moon
NASA scientists have designed a nuclear-powered “tunnelbot” which could land on one of Jupiter’s moon and drill through its ice shell in search of alien…
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Scientists Believe A Special ‘Tunnelbot’ Could Help Scout For Hidden Life On Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Scientists working on the NASA Glenn Research COMPASS team believe that a nuclear-powered tunnelbot would be an excellent way to search for microbial life and…
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NASA has spotted a mythical creature in a new image of Jupiter
Jupiter has a storm that has created an angry-looking dragon eye within its mysterious and complex cloud systems. As with cloud-gazing on Earth, there’s a…
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Jupiter in the rear view mirror: Juno probe captures stunning view
Jupiter in the rear view mirror: NASA’s Juno probe captures stunning view of swirling storms as it flies away from ‘oil painting’ planet Image captures…
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Jupiter Moon Europa’s Ice Spikes May Endanger Robot Landers
Penitentes may reach up to 50 feet tall and occur about every 23 feet in Europa’s equatorial regions. Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa is one of…
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