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The Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action
Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...
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The small moons of Jupiter
Saturn, Jupiter’s outer neighbour, currently has 83 known satellites. The four larger moons mentioned above, also known as the 'Galilean moons', account for 99.997 percent of the total mass of Jupiter ...
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What causes volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io? Scientists aren't so sure anymore
Juno arrived at Jupiter in 2016 and has made over 60 orbits of the giant planet, but for the past few years it has been edging closer and making fly-bys of the large Galilean moons. On Dec. 30 ...
Saturn rings in 128 new moons in discovery, skyrocketing Jupiter's record
Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...
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Astronomers find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
The discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t anybody seen these ones already? Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these ...
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Is Callisto, Jupiter’s moon with the most craters and third largest in the Solar System, an oceanic world with life?
If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.
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NASA Spacecraft Whipping Around Mars to Slingshot Itself Toward Jupiter's Mysterious Moon
The goal is to reach Europa, the smallest of the planet's four Galilean moons ... the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) — which will also be exploring Europa, in addition ...