Io, as seen by JunoCam on NASA’s Juno spacecraft on April 9, 2024. Image processing by Ted Stryk. NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/Ted Stryk NASA’s Juno has done it again. In the wake of its 60th orbit of Jupiter, the school bus-sized spacecraft has transmitted another tranche of data across the solar system that has been transformed into spectacular …
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) celebrated valentines day with innovative and creative cards to send loved ones on the occasion of Valentines Day. NASA came up with the images of celestial bodies giving messages of love and affection. These poster cards have a range of images including sun, moon, earth, galaxies, moon, satellites, …
(MENAFN- The Conversation) A new planet starts its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a protostellar disc . My colleagues and I have used computer simulations to show that newborn gas planets in these discs are likely to have surprisingly flattened shapes. This finding, published in Astronomy and …
In a new study published in Nature Astronomy, scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have unveiled new insights into the formation of diamonds within the icy giants of our solar system, Neptune and Uranus. This research suggests that the phenomenon known as “diamond rain” occurs at lower pressures and temperatures than …
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery in their search for exoplanets. For the first time, they have detected water vapour in the atmosphere of a small exoplanet called GJ 9827d. This is a significant step towards determining the prevalence and diversity of atmospheres on rocky planets. GJ 9827d is …
NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently made a close flyby of the solar system’s most volcanic body, the Jovian moon of Io. During the flyby, the spacecraft came within 1,000 miles of Io, which is the closest any craft has come to the moon within the last 20 years. During its flyby, the spacecraft snapped images using …
An international team of astronomers has assembled and reprocessed observations of the exoplanet WASP-121 b that were collected with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in the years 2016, 2018 and 2019. This provided them with a unique dataset that allowed them not only to analyse the atmosphere of WASP 121 b, but also to compare …
The Hubble Space Telescope is investigating something strange about the beautiful rings around Saturn. You might picture Saturn’s rings as perfectly smooth, but in fact, they have some strange dark spots that appear intermittently. These features, called spokes, look like dusty blots spread over the rings and appear for just a few rotations before disappearing …
Videos from the rover show its shadow moving across the Martian surface during a 12-hour sequence while Curiosity remained parked. When NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover isn’t on the move, it works pretty well as a sundial, as seen in two black-and-white videos recorded on Nov. 8, the 4,002nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. …
“Christmas Star” in the east after dark—as photographed in late November during NASA Juno’s perijove 56. Processed by citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill © CC BY NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has returned another spectacular set of images of the giant planet as it shines brightly as the “Christmas Star” or “Star …