Every night is a good night to look through a telescope (provided it’s not cloudy), but if you’re looking for an excuse, Jupiter is lining itself up for some candid closeups. At its farthest point, ...
About 4.6 billion years ago, when Jupiter was still bulking up into the heavyweight of the solar system, it carved a gap in ...
planet’s moons to 39, nine more than the record of the previous champ, Saturn. A team led by astronomers from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, made the discovery based on images taken in December ...
In one of the year’s most striking naked-eye celestial events, Venus and Jupiter will appear to come within just 1.6 degrees ...