Jupiter

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures extraordinarily detailed images of Jupiter’s moon Europa

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NASA‘s Juno spacecraft has taken its first picture of Jupiter‘s moon Europa — capturing the ice-encrusted surface in extraordinary detail. The image is the closest look at Europa that any spacecraft has provided in more than 20 years, when the US space agency’s Galileo came within 218 miles (351 km) of the surface in January 2000. … Read more

Planet almost identical to Jupiter is spotted orbiting a star 17,000 light years away

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A planet ‘almost identical’ to Jupiter has been spotted orbiting a star 17,000 light years from Earth by NASA‘s Kepler telescope, scientists have revealed.  The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and distance from its star, according to astronomers in Manchester.  K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb is around 420 million miles from its … Read more