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Artist’s concept of a plume of water erupting from under the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Credit: NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI
New observations hint that Jupiter’s moon Europa erupts with water geysers (corrected)
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A JUICE-y look at Jupiter from Earth
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Sep 3, 2019
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An image of Jupiter and its four big moons taken from Earth by the NavCam on the Jupiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE), set to launch in 2022. Credit: Airbus Defence and Space
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As a Jupiter storm erupts, ALMA peers below its clouds
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Aug 27, 2019
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An image of Jupiter taken at different wavelengths by ALMA shows that the planet’s zones (bright) are warmer and belts (darker) cooler. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), I. de Pater et al.; NRAO/AUI NSF, S. Dagnello
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Was Jupiter's core nearly destroyed by a massive planetary impact while it was still forming?
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Aug 15, 2019
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Artwork showing a massive planet impacting the protoJupiter while the solar system was still forming. Credit: K. Suda & Y. Akimoto/Mabuchi Design Office, courtesy of Astrobiology Center, Japan
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Jupiter from Hubble: Enormous, magnificent, and… fading at the edge?
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Aug 9, 2019
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Jupiter on June 27, 2019 as seen by Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)
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The salty ocean of Europa: Table salt found on Jupiter's moon
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Jun 13, 2019
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Contest: Pick names for Jupiter's new moons!
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Mar 21, 2019
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Orbits of twelve new moons found for Jupiter (not to scale). Some orbit the same way Jupiter spins (blue), and others the opposite way (red). Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science / Roberto Molar Candanosa
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Could the reason life on Earth exists be… Jupiter?
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Aug 22, 2018
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A dozen new moons for Jupiter!
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Jul 18, 2018
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A collage of Jupiter and its four biggest moons, imaged by Voyager 1. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Well, he *is* the god of lightning
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Jun 25, 2018
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Artwork depicting vast numbers of lightning bolts near Jupiter’s pole. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/JunoCam
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So, about that 'interstellar asteroid' announced yesterday…
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May 22, 2018
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Eros, a lumpy potato of an asteroid, is pretty typical of such solar system objects. Credit: NASA
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Did the Galileo spacecraft pass through a geyser plume over Europa? Maaaaaybe.
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May 15, 2018
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Fly over Jupiter's north pole in a 3D thermal infrared tour
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Apr 12, 2018
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Jupiter’s north pole looks like a thick cheesy pizza in this 3D rendering of the clouds using a thermal infrared mapper on the Juno spacecraft (deeper air is warmer and glows more brightly than cooler air higher up).
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Turn south at Jupiter
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Apr 6, 2018
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The Great Red Spot looms in this Juno image of Jupiter. Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
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Whoa, like, Jupiter is DEEP. Really, really deep.
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Mar 9, 2018
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Juno thermal infrared data of Jupiter’s south pole has five huge cyclones surrounding a central polar cyclone. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM
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An asteroid is about to embark on a very long voyage to interstellar space
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Mar 6, 2018
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Artwork of a distant asteroid on its way in toward the inner solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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