NASA’s spacecraft Juno is best known for the gorgeous images of Jupiter it has captured over its decade-long mission so far and the discoveries it has enabled about Jupiter’s bizarre weather phenomena. But it has also been busy studying Jupiter’s moons, including capturing images of Io and Europa and capturing not only the sights but also […]
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Juno Captures Jupiter’s Wild, Wispy Weather Anomalies
Juno has documented clusters of cyclones, including eight around the north pole. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aa3044b4738fe045ed84ec5/master/pass/SPOW_March9_2018_02.jpg
Space Photos of the Week: Juno Helps Jupiter Shows Off Its Stripes
Juno completed its eleventh orbit of the planet on February 7, capturing some spectacular images in the process. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a908d89dc9df6500b9071bb/master/pass/SPoW_Feb19_2018_05.jpg
Celgene is buying cancer drugmaker Juno Therapeutics for $9 billion (CELG, JUNO)
AP Celgene is acquiring Juno Therapeutics, a company developing personalized cancer treatments in a deal worth $ 9 billion. It’s the second deal in 2018 for the biotech giant, which has been under pressure from investors. The highly personalized treatments Juno makes, called CAR T-cell therapy, are at the beginning of what some are calling “a big […]
Space Photos of the Week: Juno Snatches a Shot of Jupiter’s Swirling Storms
Every time Juno swoops down, it comes within one Earth diameter of Jupiter—and the photos are worth the risk. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a4ed64ad49e517b2fe567c1/master/pass/SPoW_Jan01_2017_02.jpg Feed: All Latest
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Swoops In to Give Jupiter Its Close Up
These mesmerizing blue and white swirls are giant cyclones and storms that roar in the gas giant’s upper atmosphere. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a29e274e1d4a86600d1ed26/master/pass/SPoW_Dec04_2017_05.jpg Feed: All Latest
NASA’s Juno Mission Shows Jupiter’s Auroras Defy the Laws of Earthly Physics
NASA’s Juno mission overturns widely held scientific assumptions—again. https://media.wired.com/photos/59aed2246b0b3078c86c9a14/master/pass/JupiterAuroras-NASA-HP.jpg Feed: All Latest
Juno has sent back some of its first raw images of the Great Red Spot
NASA / SwRI / MSSS On Monday, the Juno spacecraft made its eighth close flyby of the planet Jupiter, and this time the spacecraft flew over the Great Red Spot that has captured the public’s attention since its discovery in the 17th century. Why is it so big? So red? And why has this storm […]
A year at Jupiter: Juno has revealed the giant of the Solar System
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Scientists get as excited as anyone about seeing new pictures of the mysterious worlds that populate our vast Solar System—from Mercury’s day-and-night terminator to Pluto’s icy mountains. For far longer than most people, astronomers imagined what these diverse planets, dwarf planets, and moons must look like from up close. It’s true that […]
NASA’s Juno mission discovers Jupiter is really weird
NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter has sent back a ton of data about our solar system’s largest planet. The results from the orbiter’s first big data-collection pass, which took place last August, are finally in and it’s clear that Juno’s five-year journey to the planet was worth the trip. Juno is being kept in fairly […]
