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See Jupiter pair up with a sliver of the moon tonight
The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...
NASA astronaut's shot from space features in Photographer of the Year competition
Described by Capture the Atlas as an "extraordinary milestone," the image One in a Billion, was captured by NASA astronaut ...
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This astronaut's incredible photo, taken from space, features in the Milky Way Photographer of the Year collection
The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has released the eighth edition of its annual Milky Way Photographer of the ...
Jupiter’s Colossal Secret: Tiny Moons Reveal a Planet Twice Its Size
Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...
Scientists just found out Jupiter used to be way bigger
In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...
Jupiter designed the solar system. Here's what the planet was like as a child.
Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...