Jupiter
Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 31, 2014: Bad Week in Space
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Ken Kremer (kenkremer.com /…
Just In Time for Halloween: Jupiter Gets a Giant Cyclops Eye!
Halloween is just around the corner. And in what appears to be an act of cosmic convergence, Hubble captured a…
You Could Fit All the Planets Between the Earth and the Moon
I ran into this intriguing infographic over on Reddit that claimed that you could fit all the planets of the…
Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 17, 2014: Comet Siding Spring & Dark Matter
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) (more…)
Beautiful Astrophoto: Jupiter at Dawn
Prolific astrophotographer Joseph Brimacombe from Australia shot this beauty from his Savannah Skies Observatory near Cairns. He notes on Flickr…
Astrophotos: Spectacular Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Graces the Dawn
The closest planetary conjunction of the year graced the skies this morning, and astrophotographers were out in force to marvel…
What’s Inside Jupiter?
Jupiter is like a jawbreaker. Dig down beneath the swirling clouds and you'll pass through layer after layer of exotic…
A New Image of Europa Emerges
Eureka – it's Europa! And a brand-new image of it, too! (Well, kinda sorta.) The picture above, showing the icy moon's…
Why is Everything Spherical?
Have you ever noticed that everything in space is a sphere? The Sun, the Earth, the Moon and the other…
Stunning Amateur Timelapse of Jupiter ‘Re-enacts’ Voyager Flyby
Back in the 1970's when NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, I remember being…