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Jupiter Was Twice Its Size and Had a Magnetic Field 50 Times Stronger After the Solar System Formed
In the early days of our solar system, when the Sun was still young and the planets were barely formed, Jupiter wasn’t the ...
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Scientists Discovered a Frozen Ocean World Between Mars and Jupiter
A recent study published in Nature Astronomyhas provided compelling evidence for a frozen ocean world on the dwarf planet ...
Jupiter was once twice as large as it is today
To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea ...
Four planets, a new star and a meteor shower. What else will you see in the May sky?
NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...
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Asteroid Vesta is at its brightest this week. Here's how to find it in the night sky
Viewers in New York will get a chance to see Vesta close to opposition after the sun goes down on May 2. The asteroid will reach its highest point in the night sky approximately an hour after midnight ...
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Why are meteor showers so unpredictable? The sun may be to blame
A simulation of the Lyrid meteor stream, which is quite wide, with each meteoroid moving on its own orbit around the sun. The orange line indicates the orbit of Jupiter. Beyond this orange line ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
It was considered a dress rehearsal for the more critical asteroid encounters ahead closer to Jupiter.This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at ...
Bright auroras on Jupiter are captured by Webb Space Telescope
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the ...
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Four planets, a new star and a meteor shower. What else will you see in the May sky?
a chance of meteor showers and the possibility of a super nova. All throughout the month of May, both Mars and Jupiter will be in the western sky just after sunset. Mars will be visible for ...