Widely considered our solar system’s most beautiful planet, Jupiter will reach opposition this month. That means Jupiter will be at its closest point to Earth, offering excellent views of this natural wonder. Jupiter’s opposition happens every 13 months, but this opposition is a special one as the planet will make its closest approach to Earth […]
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Astronomers Discovered 12 New Moons Around Jupiter. Here’s How
Eleven of them behave a lot like Jupiter’s other moons, but the twelfth one is weird (in a good way). https://media.wired.com/photos/5b4d32bc6f38f00b4c39fcd0/master/pass/jupiter.jpg
What would happen if humans tried to land on Jupiter
A special thanks to Kunio Sayanagi at Hampton University, for his help with this video. The best way to explore a new world is to land on it. That’s why humans have sent spacecraft to the Moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn’s moon, Titan, and more. But there are a few places in the solar system we will […]
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
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
Tigertron debuts its eco-friendly ethos with VR dolphin game: Jupiter & Mars
The Tigertron studio unveiled its debut game, Jupiter & Mars, at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event tonight. It’s a single-player virtual reality puzzler set in a future where humanity is now extinct — however, its influence is still felt in the world’s oceans. Tigertron developed the title in partnership with Australian studios Tantalus Media and Wicked Witch Software, and […]
Space Photos of the Week: Jupiter Takes One Hell of a Selfie
The gas giant’s got swirls for days. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a04ec074eddd27d894941fc/master/pass/SPoW_Nov6_2017_01.jpg Feed: All Latest
It rains sunscreen on this ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanet
Anyone who can conjure up a way to collect resources from Kepler-13Ab in the far future could become a sunscreen magnate. On the heavenly body, one of the hottest Jupiter-sized exoplanets the mission has ever discovered, titanium oxide falls from the skies. The planet is so close to its host star that, like our moon, […]
Hubble spots ‘unique’ binary asteroid between Mars and Jupiter
Published time: 21 Sep, 2017 19:54 Astronomers, with the aid of the Hubble Space Telescope, have discovered a unique binary object lurking in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The object, an asteroid first discovered by Spacewatch back in 2006, was reexamined again last September. Hubble took a number of images of the asteroid, […]
The Unpopular Opinion: ‘Jupiter Ascending’ is the Gorgeous, Big-Hearted Antidote to Cynical Science Fiction
(Welcome to The Unpopular Opinion, a series where a writer goes to the defense of a much-maligned film or sets their sights on a movie seemingly beloved by all. In this edition: why the failure of Valerian the City of a Thousand Planets allows it to join the club of overlooked space fantasy that already includes […]