Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. January 20: Comet Schaumasse slides by some ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in the last two decades, according to NASA. The moon is the largest in our solar system. (FILE-A screenshot from the ...
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The sky today on Tuesday, January 13: Ganymede's turn to transit
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. January 12: Io's post-opposition transit Point your telescope at bright Jupiter in Gemini to catch a transit of the large ...
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The Sky This Week from January 9 to 16: Jupiter at opposition
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 9Mars is in conjunction with the Sun at 7 A.M. EST, invisible in our sky until mid-March. The bright moon Titan lies near its ...
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede could be a vast dark matter detector, and upcoming space missions might be able to spot distinctive dark matter craters on its ancient surface. Physicists searching for dark ...
There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these Pottsville winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 on a ...
Astronomers might not know what dark matter is made of, and they might not be able to see it, but they know that it exists.
Jupiter reaches opposition overnight on Jan. 10, when it appears its brightest in 2026 opposite the sun in Earth's sky.
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