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Spotlight on Saturn's Aurorae (6/20/2008)

Spotlight on Saturn's AuroraeResearchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process ...> Full Article



Storm Winds Blow in Jupiter's Little Red Spot (5/24/2008)

Storm Winds Blow in Jupiter's Little Red SpotUsing data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes at Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system's largest and newest storms - Jupiter's Little Red Spot - has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet. ...> Full Article


Wandering Poles Left Scars on Europa (5/15/2008)

Curved features on Jupiter's moon Europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90° ...> Full Article



Scientists Find Rings of Jupiter Are Shaped in Shadow (5/1/2008)

Scientists Find Rings of Jupiter Are Shaped in ShadowScientists appear to have solved a long-standing mystery about the cause of anomalies in Jupiter's gossamer rings. ...> Full Article



Novel spots found on Jupiter (3/18/2008)

Novel spots found on JupiterScientists have observed unexpected luminous spots on Jupiter caused by its moon Io. ...> Full Article


New discovery at Jupiter could help protect Earth-orbit satellites (3/12/2008)

Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter's magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to new research published in Nature Physics this week. The discovery overturns a theory that has held sway for more than a generation and has important implications for protecting Earth-orbiting satellites. ...> Full Article


Scientist Catches Jupiter's Giant Storms in Hubble Telescope Images (1/27/2008)

Scientist Catches Jupiter's Giant Storms in Hubble Telescope ImagesThe storms may tell why gas giant planets are so windy ...> Full Article


Return to Europa: A closer look is possible (12/18/2007)

Return to Europa: A closer look is possibleJupiter's moon Europa is just as far away as ever, but new research is bringing scientists closer to being able to explore its tantalizing ice-covered ocean and determine its potential for harboring life. ...> Full Article


Geminid meteors adorn December sky (12/3/2007)

The annual Geminid meteor shower will peak on the night of Dec. 13-14. The Geminids usually offer the best show of the year, outperforming even the better-known Perseid meteor shower of August. But watching the Perseids is a pleasant way to spend a warm summer evening, while waiting outdoors on a winter night for Geminids is a bit like sitting in a refrigerator and trying to think about global warming. It can be hard to concentrate. ...> Full Article


Pluto-bound Spacecraft Sees Changes In Jupiter System (10/11/2007)

Pluto-bound Spacecraft Sees Changes In Jupiter SystemThe voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft. ...> Full Article


Jupiter: Friend Or Foe? (8/27/2007)

Jupiter: Friend Or Foe?The traditional belief that Jupiter acts as a celestial shield, deflecting asteroids and comets away from the inner Solar System, has been challenged by the first in a series of studies evaluating the impact risk to the Earth posed by different groups of object. ...> Full Article


The Planet, the Galaxy and the Laser (8/11/2007)

The Planet, the Galaxy and the LaserOn the night of 21 July, ESO astronomer Yuri Beletsky took images of the night sky above Paranal, the 2600m high mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert home to ESO's Very Large Telescope. The amazing images bear witness to the unique quality of the sky, revealing not only the Milky Way in all its splendour but also the planet Jupiter and the laser beam used at Yepun, one of the 8.2-m telescopes that make up this extraordinary facility. ...> Full Article

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