One of Jupiter’s most well-known features is its red spot or red eye. That spot is actually a massive anticyclonic storm about 3x bigger than Earth. The storm has been going for hundreds or even thousands of years. The exact age of this storm isn’t known, but it was first discovere...
Mission as an interstellar messenger: The Voyager mission set out to explore the outer planets (like Jupiter and Neptune) and some of the deepest realms of the solar system. Now in interstellar space, science data is regularly sent back home. (Both Voyager spacecraft have passed the "...
Rebecca Harrington
The Geminid meteor shower is nearly 200 years old, according to known records — the first recorded observation was in 1833 from a riverboat on the Mississippi River — and is still going strong. In fact, it's growing stronger. That's becauseJupiter'sgravityhas tugged the stream of particle...
Up until around 2011, this was usually referred to as aperigean full moon.The term supermoon was first coined by an astrologer, who also claimed that full moons occurring at distances within 90% of the perigee distance can also qualify as a supermoon. As a result, there can be more tha...
Luckily for us, the bright planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were visible that day, and I observed them closely. And after listening to him, I could differentiate between stars and planets. And explain how you felt when you saw the stars.? After watching the stars, I ...
At the beginning of the Solar System, the giant planets –Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus, andNeptune– had more circular and more compact orbits than they do today. Previous research has established that an orbital instability in the Solar System changed that orbital configuration and caused smaller planetesi...
“Board of Longitude” to offer prizes to help get it solved. One early suggestion was to use the regularity of the moons of Jupiter discovered byGalileoas a way to tell time. But it seemed that a simpler solution (not requiring a powerful telescope) might ...
The 11-year solar cycle was discovered in the mid-1800s as the result of extended solar observation by amateur astronomer Heinrich Schwabe. He...Become a member and unlock all Study Answers Start today. Try it now Create an account Ask a question Our experts can answer your tough ...
Scientists have discovered a unique binary system 1,400 light years away that consists of a hot Jupiter-like object orbiting a white dwarf, offering unparalleled insights into the study of hot Jupiters and the evolution of stars in binary systems. The hot Jupiter-like object, which orbits a st...