Jupiter will reach opposition on September 26 or 27, depending on your timezone. This means that it is directly opposite the Sun from our vantage point, rising near sunset and setting near sunrise. This alone makes it an excellent time … Read More
With its incredible beauty, a time-lapse of Jupiter’s moons Europa and Io orbiting the gas giant has recently gone viral on the Internet. Because the time-lapse is so amazing, many users have claimed that it isn’t real. While it’s important … Read More
Jupiter is a secretive swirl of coffee and cream. We’re only beginning to understand the stories that lie beneath its undulating cloud bands. Juno, NASA’s spacecraft, has played a crucial role in solving these mysteries. The probe’s JunoCam has been … Read More
Recently processed data from NASA’s Galileo orbiter have allowed spectacular video sequences to be produced from the flyby over Jupiter’s Moon Europa. Europa is the sixth natural satellite of Jupiter in increasing order of distance and the smallest of the four Galilean … Read More
Something’s wrong with Jupiter. Photos by astronomer Antony Wesley shows that one of the two dark areas in the planet’s atmosphere (the belts) has disappeared. Maybe Arthur Clark was right in his Odyssey and the gas giant would become a … Read More