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Flyover of Jupiter’s north pole in infrared
See what scientists saw this week at a meeting in Vienna. It's a 3-D fly-around of Jupiter's north pole, showing its central cyclone and the 8 smaller cyclones encircling it.
April 13, 2018
In infrared, Io appears alive with volcanos
The Juno spacecraft, now orbiting Jupiter, acquired this infrared image of the giant planet's moon Io. Each fiery dot is an active volcano.
April 13, 2018
Tour the moon in 4K
Take a virtual tour of the moon in all-new 4K resolution - Ultra High Def - created from data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
April 12, 2018
IAU approves names for Pluto’s moon Charon
NASA held a public naming contest in 2015, just before New Horizons' sweep past Pluto and Charon. The spacecraft mission team has used many of the Charon feature names since. Now the IAU gives the names the nod.
April 12, 2018
Cosmic gorilla effect could blind detection of aliens
Could it be that the more rational and methodical searches for extraterrestrial intelligence are overlooking "the gorilla in the room?" A new study suggests it's possible.
April 11, 2018
Whoa! New and giant telescopes ahead
Telescope technology has come a long way. Here are 4 new amazing machines for observing the universe, both from space and from Earth.
April 11, 2018
Goodbye Kepler, hello TESS: Passing the baton in exoplanet search
When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system. Thousands of exoplanets later, the search enters a new phase.
April 11, 2018
Hubble finds an Einstein ring
The arcs you see at the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image are created by the light of distant galaxies, distorted to form what's called an "Einstein ring."
April 11, 2018
Giant sun tornadoes aren’t spinning
Two-dimensional images of these solar prominences make them look as if they're spinning, and astronomers have long assumed they were. But new research says no.
April 9, 2018
Cosmic cold front older than solar system
Astronomers were surprised to discover an enormous “cold front” millions of light years in extent and older than the solar system.
April 9, 2018
