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The full moon will come "with a celestial bonus—setting in the early morning sky near a dazzling alignment of Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter." ...
On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter's moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted ...
Stephanie Vermillion is a travel journalist and photographer covering culture and adventure for Travel + Leisure Outside, and ...
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...
Lake Effect astronomy contributor Jean Creighton shares some myths behind some of our solar system’s most famous moons and ...
Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about geologically active moons.
"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...