While NASA’s Juno spacecraft is just getting settled in for its stay in orbit around the solar system’s largest planet, a new study based on information from ground based instruments sheds light on how Jupiter’s gravity and shadow affect one of its moons. Perhaps one of the most tortured bodies in the solar system, Io’s […]
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working with the European Space agency’s Herschel Space Observatory has announced the discovery of large concentrations of comets in two solar systems relatively close to our own. With both systems likely to contain rocky planets, the presence of so many water bearing comets, at a concentration 10 times greater than found in our own solar system, […]
Editors note: I listened with added interest to the Jimmy Buffest concert tonight, brought live via Sirius / XM from East Troy, Wisconsin, in the hopes that he would dedicate a song to Neil Armstrong. Better known for extolling the virtues of boats, beaches bars and bikinis, Jimmy has always maintained a strong interest in space exploration, […]
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