Jupiter's three faint rings came as a surprise when NASA'sVoyager 1spacecraft discovered them around the planet's equator in 1979. Much more tenuous than Saturn's chunky, colorful rings, Jupiter's rings are made of continuous streams of dust particles emitted by some of the planet's moons,...
Of the nearly 5,000 total planet candidates found to date, more than 3,200 now have been verified, and 2,325 of these were discovered by Kepler. Launched in March 2009, Kepler is the first NASA mission to find potentially habitable Earth-size planets. For four years, Kepler m...
In the largest quest yet to map the universe, an international team of researchers is usingDESI, or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, to survey the skies. Observations officially began today, May 17, at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona; the mission will last five yea...
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When was Ganymede discovered? How many spacecraft have visited Ganymede? Ganymede surface characteristics Ganymede FAQs Additional resources Ganymede is Jupiter's largest moon and is also the largest moon in the entire solar system. It is bigger than both Mercury and dwarf planet Pluto and ...
"In our solar system, magnetized planets are strong radio sources. Radio detection of exoplanets aims at the physical characterization of exoplanets and comparative studies with solar system planets," said Zarka. The first exoplanet was discovered near a pulsar by means of radio astronomy. But that...
Among other things, the team now hopes to investigate how the new scenario might have impacted the bodies’ geology—including potential subsurface oceans—as well as whether the “kiss and capture” mechanism might be responsible for other binary systems in the uni...
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In addition to having a large aperture for imaging rocky planets in the habitable zones of their stars, it will spectroscopically characterize the atmospheres of these potentially habitable exoplanets, particularly those set to be discovered by the European Space Agency's PLATO (Planetary Transits and...
to all of the individual exposures at each epoch of time. This will allow astronomers and public users of the archive to search the full survey for high-energy explosive events in the cosmos, discover moving objects in our own solar system, and explore the time domain of the universe. ...