Medicine & TechnologyThe Hubble Space Telescope capture new images of Jupiter revealing rainbow-like patterns and colors never seen before. Europa is also seen on the left side of the gas giant, a candidate of a habitable world.
Although the Northern hemisphere will get the best view of the Perseids, the Southern hemisphere can still enjoy the show a few hours later. Here are a few things to keep in mind when getting ready for this year's celestial show.
From multiple planet sightings, a galaxy containing one trillion stars, and a meteor shower, the August night sky is fully booked for events the whole month. Would it be a coincidence that the month will end the same way it will begin?
Europa is one of the many moons that show signs of life, particularly subsurface oceans. NASA continues to prepare for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission in 2024.
Three years' worth of 'lucky images' taken from the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's dormant volcano Mauna Kea formed this mosaic, together with data and photos from Juno and Hubble to produce one of the highest resolution images of Jupiter ever taken from Earth.
The Juno spacecraft was able to discover the giant storm during its death-dodging flyby last November 3 and it was observed that the Texas-sized storm is made up of six other cyclones.
Most of the alarm about the seemingly falling apart of Jupiter's Great Red Spot came from amateur astronomers who were able to observe rose-colored clouds breaking away from the 15,000-mile-wide storm.
Jupiter is known not only for its size but also for the brown and white color bands that makes it beautifully distinct, but all of that could be changing.