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The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Simon (GSFC) Music: You Want Dark Tunes? by Ave Air ...
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Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...
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The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...
The Great Red Spot and the region around Jupiter’s equator appear ... with a simple comment capturing many space lovers’ reaction to the images: “Jupiter, as the [Webb] telescope sees it. So cool!” ...
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
Venus remains rather low at dawn but slowly gains altitude as the month rolls along. Look for it in the east 45-60 minutes ...