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Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...
Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.
The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window narrows as the Sun sets later each day. Mars is past its best, but remains ...
A crescent moon (L) is seen with Saturn (upper right) and Jupiter (lower right) ahead of their closest visible conjunction on December 17, 2020 in Antalya, Turkey. On December 21, a Jupiter and ...
Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these moons? Are there more out there? And what exactly makes something a moon, anyway? These new discoveries cement Saturn ...
Jupiter’s magnetosphere is enormous, the largest continuous structure in the Solar System apart from the heliosphere itself.
Click here.) On the night of December 21, sky watchers will witness a rare celestial event - the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. The planets will appear extremely close to each other ...
It sounds like a wacky fantasy, but scientists believe that it rains diamonds in the clouds of Saturn and Jupiter. Diamonds are made from highly compressed and heated carbon. Theoretically ...
Oc­cul­ta­tion of Jupiter and the Galilean moons – Io, Eu­ropa, Ganymede and Cal­lis­to – by Deimos, ob­served dur­ing Mars Ex­press or­bit 22,859, on 14 Febru­ary 2022. The dis­tance from Mars ...
During the occultation, observers can expect ... source in the universe ‘The Moon King rises’: Saturn’s swarm of 274 Moons leaves Jupiter in the dust ...