Space telescope: Chandra X-Ray Observatory The Chandra X-ray Observatory has spent more than 25 years detecting exotic environments in the cosmos to help astronomers understand the structure and ...

Others, like Jupiter’s Io, are very hot. So hot, in fact, that recent Juno flybys of Io revealed a lava lake on the moon’s surface, which was dramatically reconstructed in a 3D animation.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting the planet Jupiter since July 2016. As of October 23, 2024, the probe has performed 66 'perijoves' — close passes around the gas giant.

Juno’s next close flyby of Jupiter, perijove 66, will occur on Nov. 25, 2024. The Juno mission is scheduled to end on Sept. 15, 2025, when Juno will perform a “death dive” into the gas giant ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft's recent close flyby of Jupiter's northern hemisphere, captured in stunning detail by citizen scientist Gary Eason, reveals chaotic clouds and cyclonic storms. This ongoing ...

Jupiter’s auroras are much more powerful than those on Earth and driven by fluctuations in the gas giant’s magnetic field. To the sides of the planet, Chandra observed X-ray clouds. NGC 1850 ...

“Amalthea circles Jupiter inside Io’s orbit, which is the innermost of the planet’s four largest moons, taking 0.498 Earth days to complete one orbit.” “At the time that the first of these two images ...

Image processing by Gerald Eichstädt The Juno spacecraft was about 165,000 miles (265,000 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops at the time the first image was taken.

From spiral galaxies to volcanic eruptions on Jupiter moon, see these amazing space images The year may be young, but there has been no shortage of stunning imagery from beyond the stars in the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter and taking jaw-dropping photos since 2016. The most recent images capture Jupiter's cyclones, moons, and atmosphere in stunning detail.

What’s new — The Juno spacecraft launched in 2011 and orbits Jupiter every 53 days. Dunn and colleagues examined four years of its observations, as well as data pulled from the European Space ...