Mysterious cosmic body is a rogue ‘Super-Jupiter’
Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...
OTD In Space – March 4: Jupiter's Rings Discovered
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s ...
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NASA’s James Webb spots mysterious ‘Super Jupiter’ floating in space
The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...
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NASA Selects UVA Astronomer To Join Asteroid Mission
A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...
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Jupiter like exoplanets formed earlier than previously thought
Scientists are discovering more exoplanets, but they’re still figuring out how these planets form. Jupiter-like exoplanets ...