News articles tagged with 'Jupiter'
Jupiter scar likely from rocky body
— 27 Jan 2011 18:50 | AstronomyA hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published recently in the journal Icarus…
Voyager celebrates 25 years since Uranus visit
— 22 Jan 2011 10:08 | AstronomyAs NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at…
Europa's hidden ice chemistry
— 5 Oct 2010 03:01 | AstronomyThe frigid ice of Jupiter's moon Europa may be hiding more than a presumed ocean: it is likely the scene of some unexpectedly fast chemistry between water and sulphur dioxide at extremely…
Caught in the act: Fireballs light up Jupiter
— 10 Sep 2010 12:10 | AstronomyAmateur astronomers working with professional astronomers have spotted two fireballs lighting up Jupiter's atmosphere this summer, marking the first time Earth-based telescopes have…
Hubble scrutinises site of mysterious flash and missing cloud belt on Jupiter
— 17 Jun 2010 14:54 | AstronomyAt 22:31 (CEST) on 3 June 2010 Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley saw a two-second-long flash of light on the disc of Jupiter. He was watching a live video feed from his telescope.…
First results dealing with the impact of a celestial body on the planet Jupiter
— 20 May 2010 15:51 | AstronomyThe Planetary Sciences Group at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country with its headquarters at the Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao and led by Professor Agustin Sanchez Lavega,…
Source of zodiac glow identified
— 16 Apr 2010 01:11 | AstronomyThe eerie glow that straddles the night time zodiac in the eastern sky is no longer a mystery. First explained by Joshua Childrey in 1661 as sunlight scattered in our direction by dust…
Helium rain on Jupiter explains lack of neon in atmosphere
— 23 Mar 2010 13:44 | AstronomyOn Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie 'Up.' In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of…
Jupiter's spot seen glowing
— 17 Mar 2010 11:47 | Astronomy'This is our first detailed look inside the biggest storm of the Solar System,' says Glenn Orton, who led the team of astronomers that made the study. 'We once thought the Great Red…
Researchers offer explanation for the differences between Ganymede and Callisto
— 24 Jan 2010 19:34 | AstronomyDifferences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different surfaces and interior…