In a stunning new timelapse collected over a dozen years, four Jupiter-mass exoplanets dance around their distant star. Where is HR 8799? HR8799 is located approximately 133 light-years from Earth like Planets in the constellation Pegasus and is 1.5 times the mass of our sun. (The nearest star system to our planet is Alpha Centauri […]
Picture taken by the solar-powered orbiter’s JunoCam but not obtained engineering data are being evaluated again. The JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft did not acquire all planned images during the orbiter’s most recent flyby of Jupiter on Jan. 22. On Juno’s most recent flyby on Jan. 22 of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft didn’t forward […]
Europe prepares for a major space mission exploring Jupiter’s icy moons. After final tests in Toulouse, the Juice satellite heads to South America for an April launch. The six-ton craft will swiftly fly by Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa, using special instruments to detect signs of habitability on Jupiter’s icy moons. Despite the Jovian system’s distance […]
China aims to explore the south pole of the moon in 2026. To begin exploring the Moon’s south pole, China accelerated its progress toward designing a new moon rover. In the Chang’e-7 expedition, the lunar rover will target the moon’s south pole and far side. Before China’s Chang’e-7 expedition, the Yutu 2 robot was also […]
Eighty moons of Jupiter are yet to be discovered. Fifty-seven of these moons are named by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). And the remaining Twenty-three will be detailed in the future. Ganymede (Moon): Ganymede, the largest of Jupiter moons, was closely observed by the Juno spacecraft during flybys in 2019 and 2021. On June 7, […]