Scientists and astronomers are working to confirm what a handful of stargazers on two continents saw Monday: a bright flash of light in the atmosphere of Jupiter that was likely a space rock impacting ...
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What would happen if the sun ate Jupiter
In order for Jupiter to crash into the Sun, something truly extraordinary would need to happen. Its orbit would need to be drastically altered by a gravitational disturbance. And not just any ...
Lucky is the word I’d use for any telescopic observers who got to see one of the most stunning spectacles in nature when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in July 1994. The collision left inky ...
Stop the presses! Word comes this evening of a possible new impact on Jupiter observed by amateur astronomer Dan Peterson of Racine, Wis. He saw "a bright white two second long explosion just inside ...
This enhanced image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during the mission's June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon on Juno's 34th pass close to ...
Jupiter's unusually dilute core may be the result of a catastrophic impact billions of years ago with a protoplanet at least 8x the mass of Earth. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...
A massive collision billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Naoyuki Hirata at Kobe University, Japan, and his colleagues studied Ganymede’s extensive ...
Astronomers around the world are buzzing with the news that something crashed into Jupiter. The question is: What was it? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...
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