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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Forecast for Jupiter's moon Ganymede: Extremely cold and… humid?

Phil Plait

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Mystery of Jupiter’s auroras finally solved — and Earth has more in common with them than we thought

Elizabeth Rayne

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Tag: search for life

Europa’s radiation-bombed surface could affect the search for life-forms in its depths

Elizabeth Rayne

Tag: search for life

Volcanoes deep inside frozen moon Europa could mean a hotbed of life

Elizabeth Rayne

May 31, 2021

Tag: Bad Astronomy

New pix of Jupiter will rock your (very very large) world

Phil Plait

May 12, 2021

Jupiter in infrared by the Gemini Observatory, showing warmer areas as brighter and cooler darker. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) et al. Acknowledgments: M. Zamani

Tag: Bad Astronomy

This could be why Jupiter’s auroras look like Tony Stark’s arc reactor and are just as sci-fi

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 1, 2021

aurora on Jupiter

Because Jupiter’s Great Red Spot isn’t monstrous enough, it devours entire storms

Elizabeth Rayne

Mar 21, 2021

Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Tag: Exoplanets

Space forecast is clear skies, because a Jupiter-like gas giant with no upper atmosphere clouds exists

Elizabeth Rayne

Jan 28, 2021

Tag: Exoplanets

Jupiter’s whirling, swirling cyclones are actually portals to the space desert no one expected

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 23, 2020

hot spots on Jupiter

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Wait. Jupiter has *how* many moons?

Phil Plait

Dec 22, 2020

It doesn’t really work this way, but you get the idea. From a Hubble image of Jupiter and its moon Europa. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Why Jupiter could be the final girl of the solar system - until a star kicks it out

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 8, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Jupiter and Saturn align in the sky, their closest approach to each other in 400 years

Phil Plait

Dec 8, 2020

A couple, including the photographer, watch Jupiter and Saturn and the Milky Way over the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Italian Alps in early October 2020. Credit: Giorgia Hofer

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Take a breathtaking jaunt over Jupiter in NASA's soaring new Juno spacecraft flyby video

Jeff Spry

Nov 25, 2020

Swirling storms on Saturn and Jupiter are unlike anything on Earth

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 21, 2020

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Jupiter's moon Europa may glow due to salty irradiation

Phil Plait

Nov 11, 2020

The dark side of Europa may glow a lovely shade of teal, as shown in this artwork, due to radiation bombarding salty ice on its surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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