#Jupiter
Pioneer 10 Crosses the Asteroid Belt https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/pioneer-10-crosses-the-asteroid-belt/ #NASA #Asteroids #Jupiter #Mars #Pioneer #Pioneer10 #Planets #TheSolarSystem
2023-12-04T23:43:50+09:00:00
木星 Jupiter
地心距離4.1438632au (619913108km)
赤道視半径23''.79 極視半径22''.24 等級-2.8
輝面率0.997
地球からの距離が離れて来たせいか、縞模様が見えなくなった。stellariumのスクリーンショットも載せます。
#木星 #天体観測 #jupiter #photography #fedibird
I've been under the weather the last few nights so my planned video from Saturday has been delayed. Hoping to get editing done and uploaded tomorrow (or Wed at the latest). It's a long-ish video covering my entire planetary processing workflow in AstroSurface with data that you can download and use to follow along.
Final product will be this image of Jupiter. Stay tuned!
At first glance, it might appear that two #planets at PSR 1257+12 were the first confirmed #exoplanets.
Those planets were followed in 1995 by 51 Pegasi b, an #exoplanet about half the size of #Jupiter.
However, there’s one exoplanet whose discovery predates 51 Pegasi b by seven years — but a winding series of circumstances meant the planet never got to be considered the first.
#astronomy #history
https://www.inverse.com/science/gamma-cephei-anniversary
Two very round space anniversaries coming up in the next few hours: at 2:26 UTC on 4 December 1973 #Pioneer10 came closest to #Jupiter as the first space probe ever to go there - and at 8:48 UTC on 4 December 1993 #Hubble was caught for the first Servicing Mission and berthed in Endeavour's payload bay at 9:26 UTC. See https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2023/12/04/heute-vor-30-jahren-der-erste-einfang-hubbles for a few links about both milestones.
Andrey Zvyagintsev Will Tackle Oligarch Drama ‘Jupiter’ With New Creative Vision: ‘I’m Hoping to Start From Scratch’
#Variety #Festivals #Global #News #AndreyZvyagintsev #Jupiter #MarrakechFilmFestival
Solana DeFi Platform Jupiter Shares Airdrop Allocations – Here’s How to Check Eligibility - Source: AdobeStock / Aleksandra Sova
Jupiter, a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggre... - https://cryptonews.com/news/solana-defi-platform-jupiter-shares-airdrop-allocations-heres-how-to-check-eligibility.htm #altcoinnews #airdrop #jupiter
17.10: Tussen 17:10 en 4:53 uur (4 dec) staan alle Gal. manen W van #Jupiter. Van binnen naar buiten: #Europa, #Io, #Ganymedes en #Callisto. #Jupiter staat een hoogte van 49gr boven de horizon, i/h zuidzuidwesten en de planeet is gemakkelijk te vinden. De #Zon staat 56gr onder de horizon en het is donker. Voor het waarnemen v/d manen van #Jupiter is een stabiele verrekijker voldoende. Zie ook het slingerdiagram voor de manen van Meer info: https://hemel.waarnemen.com/astrokal/
Partial lunar eclipse from Oct. 28th
On October 28th there was a partial lunar eclipse taking place. It was rather cloudy but we were at least lucky enough to see it through the clouds. In Germany it was also astronomy day so our astronomy group offered an observation evening in the tiny o
https://astrofruechtchen.de/2023/10/partial-lunar-eclipse-from-oct-28th/
#Astronomy #Astrophotography #ObservationReports #Astronomy #Astrophotography #eclipse #Jupiter #LunarEclipse #moon #observation
Heute (03.12.2023) vor...
...50 Jahren Erste #Sonde bei #Jupiter Die Sonde #Pioneer 10 passiert am 3. Dezember den Planeten Jupiter und liefert erste spektakuläre Bilder aus der Welt der Gasriesen. Danach nimmt sie Kurs auf den #Stern Aldebaran.
Mehr https://astronomiemuseum.de/heute-vor
#Astronomiemuseum
I'm off to Europa next year - at least my name will be.
I've joined the Jupiter Orbit, Europa Clipper spacecraft mission heading off in October '24 and arriving in 2030!
I've already got my name on the Mars rovers so it will be great to visit another part of our galaxy.
You can add your name to the 'message in a bottle' here - https://europa.nasa.gov/
#space #NASA #astronomy #milkyWay #galaxy #nature #Jupiter #Europa
#Éphémérides astronomiques pour décembre 2023 🎄 : #Jupiter est encore ce mois ci la planète la plus facile à observer. Elle apparaîtra comme l'"étoile" la plus lumineuse du ciel durant les soirées. Une observation avec une petite lunette montrera ses 4 plus grands satellites. Le 22 au soir elle sera en conjonction avec la Lune (voir image). Le matin ce sera #Vénus qui sera particulièrement bien observable.
https://www.astro5000.com/Ephemerides/ephemerides_12_23.html
#astronomie #ciel :boost_ok:
https://www.moezine.com/874148/ 期間限定公開【最新】イルミネーション2023〈川口春奈・武田玲奈・堀田茜・平原綾香〉点灯式 期間限定公開【最新】イルミネーション2023〈川口春奈・武田玲奈・堀田茜・平原綾香〉点灯式 〈期間限定公開：2月29日〉 都内各所でイルミネーション点灯式に豪華芸能人が登場。 クリスマスが近づく街をライトアップしました。 0:00 川口春奈★表参道 フェンディ イルミネーション2023 0:00 武田玲奈★「SHIBUYA WINTER ILLUMINATION 2023-2024 COLLECTIONS」ハチ公広場・Shibuya Sakura Stage 点灯式 0:00 堀田茜★『青の洞窟 SHIBUYA』点灯式 0:00 平原綾香★商業施設「KITTE」WHITE KITTE 10th A… #actress #Jupiter #Serendipity #tbs #イルミネーション #エンタメ #クリスマス #ライトアップ #堀田茜 #女優 #川口春奈 #平原綾香 #武田玲奈 #芸能
I’m a sucker for sending my name into space. It’ll be there on a tiny chip floating around Europa and Jupiter.
Time lapse of tonight's #Jupiter system in methane band. Covers 3 hours of real time. 74 x 100 x 0.5 sec CH4 in Celestron 8" at f/10.
17.27: Vanavond is een overgang v/d #Jupitermaan #Io en van #Io's schaduw over #Jupiter volledig waar te nemen. De overgang begint om 17:27 uur, wanneer #Io voor #Jupiter verschijnt, en duurt tot 20:20 uur, wanneer #Io's schaduw het #Jupiteroppervlak weer verlaat. Tussen beide gebeurtenissen in is waar te nemen hoe #Io's schaduw op het oppervlak van #Jupiter verschijnt (18:10 uur) en #Io #Jupiter weer achter zich laat (19:36 uur). Voo... Meer info: https://hemel.waarnemen.com/astrokal/
Der Himmel im #Dezember Gleich zwei #Sternschnuppenströme kommen, #Jupiter strahlt
Der Himmel im Dezember: Gleich zwei Sternschnuppenströme kommen, Jupiter strahlt
23.08: Tussen 23:08 en 5:06 uur (1 dec) nemen we alle grote #Jupitermanen O v/d schijf waar. Van binnen naar buiten: #Callisto, #Io, #Europa en #Ganymedes. #Jupiter staat een hoogte van 30gr boven de westzuidwestelijke horizon. De #Zon staat 54gr onder de horizon en het is goed Meer info: https://hemel.waarnemen.com/astrokal/
Maantje van Dinkinesh krijgt een naam
Het maantje dat werd gevonden tijdens de eerste asteroïde-ontmoeting van de Lucy-missie van de NASA heeft een officiële naam. Op 27 november 2023 keurde de Internationale Astronomische Unie de naam “Selam” goed
23.01: In de nacht van 29 op 30 nov zijn overgangen van #Io en haar schaduw over #Jupiter volledig waar te nemen. De overgang begint om 23:01 uur, wanneer #Io voor #Jupiter verschijnt, en duurt tot 1:51 uur, wanneer #Io's schaduw het #Jupiteroppervlak weer verlaat. In de tussentijd is te zien hoe #Io's schaduw op het oppervlak van #Jupiter verschijnt (23:41 uur) en #Io #Jupiter weer verlaat ( Meer info: https://hemel.waarnemen.com/astrokal/
The bright, waning gibbous #Moon joins #Jupiter and setting #Saturn with a few passing clouds when we open the #WestportObservatory for our weekly Wednesday #StarParty tonight, 11/29. See the last views of November skies when the dome opens up at 8 pm!
Sun is in quincunx to Jupiter retrograde today and Venus in exact conjunction to the south node. There is a frustration with aspects of our abundance, or positive areas that we want to expand in. As Jupiter is retrograde and Venus is on the south node this is likely relating to people and things from our past that are coming up or need to be let go of or dealt with & integrated in some way so we can expand and move forward into new independent and positive directions #astrology #jupiter #venus
Jupiter & 4 moons this evening
#Jupiter #Astrophotography #nikonphotography #space #NorthernIreland
V dubnu 2023 odstartovala sonda JUICE na misi, jejímž cílem je prozkoumat oceánské měsíce Jupiteru a zjistit, zda na nich může existovat život.
https://www.space.com/europe-juice-jupiter-icy-moons-mission-documentary
22.05: In de nacht van 28 op 29 nov is een overgang v/d #Jupitermaan #Europa en van #Europa's schaduw over #Jupiter in zijn geheel te zien. Om 22:05 uur zien we het begin v/d overgang op het moment dat #Europa #Jupiter betreedt, en duurt tot 1:39 uur, wanneer #Europa's schaduw het #Jupiteroppervlak weer verlaat. Tussen beide gebeurtenissen in is te zien hoe #Europa's schaduw #Jupiter betreedt (23:20 uur) en #Europa #Jupiter weer achte... Meer info: https://hemel.waarnemen.com/astrokal/
APOD from 2023-11-28
Ganymede from Juno
#Jupiter's #moon Ganymede, the largest in the Solar System, has an icy surface with bright craters and grooved terrain. Its ocean may harbor more water than #Earth's and possibly life. Juno spacecraft's 2021 flyby of Ganymede shortened its Jupiter orbit from 53 to 43 days while studying Jupiter's gravity, magnetic field, and clouds.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231128.html#space #astronomy #mercury #pluto #planet
Meanwhile on #Jupiter itself ... tons of cylindrical maps, even animated, from hi-res amateur images taken in recent months and weeks: https://www.facebook.com/mizumoto.shinji.9/posts/pfbid02tVimyvvmpzsnowkqnxhdEVTfmGtMrFbSkp4EBTJSVUhQdEHNDCCLix278WwDh2tKl and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=666964222230179 and https://alpo-j.sakura.ne.jp/Latest/j_Cylindrical_Maps/j23animL3.htm
How about that? A British amateur astronomer is cosistently detecting the #sodium cloud around the #Jupiter moon #Io since August ... with a 10-inch reflector and even an 11-cm refractor lately:
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20230828_095540_17c881aad7277e47
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20230828_094658_a0e6fb912ac27e93
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20230910_101351_88e56009df963e9a
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20231021_075455_906934e30939df1e
https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20231114_083947_2e73181fb7e2ae79
What this all means:
https://britastro.org/section_news_item/imaging-the-sodium-cloud-of-io
And yet more cool Galilean satellites amateur observations:
Jupiter by the Tower
#paris #jupiter #EiffelTower #photography #night #nightphotography
Signed up to have my name go to Jupiter. My name's gone to Mars a few times now, but Jupiter will be a first.
Message in a bottle
Join the mission and have your name engraved on #NASA’s Europa Clipper #spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles to explore #Jupiter's #Europa, an ocean world that may support life.
https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-bottle/sign-on/
1 Hour of #Jupiter sounds #NASA Voyager #Recordings
I managed to photo Jupiter last night, and I got detail! Look at those cloud bands!!😭😭
I nearly cried and did a happy dance.🥹
Buying my scope was SUCH a good decision! She's showing me such amazing things!
Photo taken on my phone so it isn't the best, but it's mine.🥹💜
Yesterday I happened upon postings here saying that there was a #conjunction of #Jupiter and the #moon. I didn't pay much mind. But then, as I walked under the skylight in my hallway on the way to bed, I saw the moon and Jupiter perfectly framed in the skylight. It was lovely.
Well. It's cloudy and hazy and foggy but the clouds are adding some nice colours tonight
Waxing gibbous moon, 97.46% illuminated
Jupiter with Callisto, Io, Europa & Ganymede through the clouds
Couple of shots of the Moon & Jupiter with clouds
Nearly there. The moon this evening at 96% with a bonus of a conjunction with Jupiter #Aberdeenshire #Jupiter #Lunar #Jupiter
Speculative solar system landscapes
Europa, by David Morovan a.k.a. LiquidNerve
https://www.deviantart.com/liquidnerve/art/Europa-26790227
#spaceart #space #art #jupiter #europa #io #planet #planets #satellite #satellites #moon #moons #oceans #ice #jovian #system #joviansystem #LiquidNerve #artist #LiquidNerveArt #solarsystem #landscape #landscapes #astronomy #astrodon #universe #education #scicomm
cellphone takes picture of moon and Jupiter last night (phone kindly adds a green nebula for fun) #moon #jupiter #BadCellphonePhotos
APOD from 2023-11-25
Little #Planet Aurora
A 360° mosaic from Iceland shows #Earth with Aurora Borealis lighting up Kirkjufell mountain. Captured during strong geomagnetic storms in November, the image features the Big Dipper, Pleiades cluster, and #Jupiter in the night sky.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231125.html#space #astronomy
A few clouds will pass by from time to time tonight, 11/22, but LET'S OPEN THE #WESTPORTOBSERVATORY DOME! The waxing gibbous #Moon is the main course of the pre-Turkey Day skies, with #Jupiter and quickly setting #Saturn being the incredible appetizers. Make sure you grab one of our incredible 2024 calendars, t-shirts or hats on your visit this evening - Just $20 each to help support WAS!
While we wait, we can enjoy this small sample of Juno's greatest hits. These dazzling images were taken by Juno during its first 50 orbits around Jupiter.
Source: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasa-s-juno-mission-marks-50-orbits-around-jupiter?linkId=209241079
The website has descriptions and hi-res versions for each image.
Many of the images were processed by our experts here such as @kevinmgill @andrealuck and @TheSeaning
We can browse thru many more images at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Juno
Also see https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/111237155349804868
#Juno #Jupiter
11/n
Juno Perijove 56 is now complete. The Juno spacecraft is now racing away from Jupiter back along its 38-day elliptical orbit. It is currently 125,000 km away from Jupiter. It was 4,400 km from Jupiter's surface near its northern polar region just and hour and 20 minutes ago.
Now we wait for the images captured by JunoCam while scientists wait for data captured by Juno's other instruments like JIRAM, JADE and JEDI.
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno?rate=0&time=2023-11-22T13:40:48.920+00:00
#Juno #Jupiter
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As usual, raw and processed images of Jupiter, taken during Perijove 56, will be posted at the NASA Juno website
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
They start getting posted typically within 24 hours.
The site contains many high-quality processed images from experts like @kevinmgill, @andrealuck and @TheSeaning
Credit for image of Io from PJ55: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill © CC BY
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?users[]=4882
#Juno #Jupiter #Io
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Similar to Io, Jupiter's other moons Ganymede and Europa also create auroras in Jupiter's polar regions through their interaction with Jupiter's magnetic field. The intense flux of electrons and ions along the magnetic lines directly crossing the moons create auroral spots or "footprints" of each moon seen in the UV image taken by Hubble in 1998. They move across Jupiter's surface in circles, leaving a trail of glowing auroras behind them.
https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/210215-Io-helps-Jupiter-accelerate-particles
#Juno #Jupiter #Io
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The following video shows the mesmerizing auroras of Jupiter, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and by Juno in 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dplSgv6qlMk
#Juno #Jupiter #Io
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Jupiter's rotating magnetosphere cuts across the slower moving Io, causing it to develop 400 kvolts across Io and a 3 million amp current. Some of the ions are pulled into Jupiter's atmosphere along the magnetic lines of force, creating a flux tube and auroras/lightning in the planet's upper atmosphere.
Similarly, ionized atoms in the plasma torus travel along magnetic lines and cause auroras in Jupiter's polar regions.
https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_10137122/en/juno-reveals-the-exquisite-finesse-of-jupiter-s-auroras
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings/surprising-new-features-associated-with-the-moon-io
#Juno #Jupiter #Io
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Juno's primary mission ended in July 2021. The mission was then extended until 2025, with 42 additional orbits, including close passes of Jupiter’s north polar cyclones; flybys of Ganymede, Europa, and Io; as well as the first extensive exploration of the faint rings encircling the planet.
The later orbits spend more time inside Jupiter's ferocious radiation belts, risking damage to spacecraft electronics.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-mission-expands-into-the-future
#Juno #Jupiter
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Here are a subset of the dates of Jupiter flybys of Juno.
Perijoves 57 and 58 will feature close flybys of the moon Io; Juno will be just 1,500 km from Io's surface during PJ57 and PJ58 on Dec 30 and Feb 3 resp.
Juno orbital period = 38 earth days.
Io orbital period = 42.5 hours (1.77 days).
Juno gets close to Io on every alternate orbit.
Juno orbital period after PJ57 will be 33 days, allowing it to visit Io on PJ58.
Source: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/jun2022/slides/Bolton.pdf
#Juno #Jupiter #Io
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Juno's Perijove 56 will occur around 12:20 UTC, Nov 22, 2023 at a distance of 4,400 km above Jupiter's surface.
This is what the close flyby will look like with Io in the distance.
Juno will be quite far from Io after it swings around Jupiter; the closest it will get is 358,300 km. But during the the next 2 flybys, Juno will come within 1,500 km of Io! See next post for details.
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno?rate=0&time=2023-11-22T12:15:00.000+00:00
#Io #Jupiter #Juno
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The "Io Plasma Torus" is a donut shaped region around Jupiter composed of hot ionized gas (plasma). It is caused by Jupiter's strong magnetic field which rotates faster than Io (10 v 42.5 hours) and the dispersal of about 1,000 kg/second of material (mainly SO2, but also NaCl, S, O, C, K) by Io into the planetary magnetosphere. The torus cross-section is ~210,000 km wide. It glows in UV wavelengths.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia24524-the-jupiter-io-system-and-interaction-illustration
Image source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sketch-of-the-Io-plasma-torus-and-the-general-geometrical-setup-after-Audouze-et-al_fig1_253435478
#Io #Jupiter #Juno
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The NASA Juno spacecraft will make its 56th flyby of Jupiter (Perijove 56) tomorrow around 12:20 UTC, Nov 22, 2023.
A few hours earlier, around 08:10 UTC, it will cross the orbit of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. Juno will pass through what is known as the "Io Plasma Torus", the donut shaped region around Io's orbit composed of hot ionized gas (plasma) fed by material from Io's eruptions and shaped by Jupiter's magnetosphere.
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno?rate=0&time=2023-11-22T08:10:00.000+00:00
#Juno #Io #Jupiter
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The #WASAwayTeam will have multiple telescopes set up at Aquila's Nest Vineyards in Newtown tonight, 11/16, beginning at 7 pm for an unforgettable #starparty with #wine! It will be a beautiful night, and on the menu (other than great wine), we'll see #Saturn, #Jupiter, the fall constellations, and more under the canopy of stars. RSVP now and see your Universe with WAS and Aquila's Nest Vineyards tonight!
Another cloudy night is on tap for the WAS Weekly Wednesday #StarParty tonight, 11/15 - WE ARE CLOSED. However, if you want your #Saturn and #Jupiter fix this week - we're in Newtown at Aquila's Nest Vineyards THURSDAY from 7-9, and the weather looks fantastic! Make sure you reserve your place for space today.
#PPOD: This 2006 Gemini Observatory image shows Jupiter’s two giant “red” spots brushing past one another in the planet’s southern hemisphere. In the near-infrared, the red spots appear white rather than the reddish hue seen at visible wavelengths and both are massive storm systems. The larger one is the Great Red Spot and the smaller is Oval BA, which no longer exists. Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF
Lurdalagon Patera, Upulevo Fluctus, Mixcoatl, Loki, Dazhbog, Susanoo, Tvashtar, Pele, Wanajo, and many more...
New map of Io's volcanoes and volcanic activities from the Juno spacecraft just published in Nature Astronomy by AG Davies and co-authors: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02123-5
#io #volcanoes #volcano #map #jupiter #moon #juno #nasa #spacecraft #space#science #research #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #volcanology #nature
@selzero @pjohanneson The brightest one on the right is #Jupiter. The other one is the star Capella.
The #cloud bands in #Jupiter are actually cylindrical:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02077-8
#PlanetaryScience #Physics #Astronomy #science
NASA’s Juno Finds Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate in Cylindrical Layers https://www.nasa.gov/missions/juno/nasas-juno-finds-jupiters-winds-penetrate-in-cylindrical-layers/ #NASA #Juno #Europa #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Jupiter #JupiterMoons #Planets #TheSolarSystem
07/11/2023 - On Jupiter the skies are always blue
NASA has spotted organic compounds on Jupiter's largest moon.
Futurism reports: "The latest discovery sheds more light on the composition of Ganymede's mysterious ocean — and in turn, how it may have evolved over the mysterious eons of our solar system's past."
Following up from my last post, Here is the single best frame from that timelapse.
#astronomy #astrophoto #astrophotography #Jupiter #Planets #space #astro
NASA SAYS IT'S SPOTTED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS ON JUPITER'S LARGEST MOON
https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-organic-compounds-jupiter-moon-ganymede
#space #spaceexploration #planets #planetaryscience #jupiter #ganymede
Hubble Provides Unique Ultraviolet View of Jupiter https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-provides-unique-ultraviolet-view-of-jupiter/ #NASA #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Jupiter #Planets #TheSolarSystem
Jupiter erreicht heute seine beste Stellung des Jahres: Der größte Planet unseres Sonnensystems kommt dabei der Erde so nah wie selten. 🪐 🌕
Dadurch leuchtet er am Nachthimmel besonders hell und ist gut zu erkennen. 👀
Jupiter steht der Sonne von der Erde aus gesehen direkt gegenüber, weshalb er derzeit mit Sonnenuntergang auf- und mit Sonnenaufgang wieder untergeht. 🌅
APOD from 2023-11-03
Title: #Jupiter by Moonlight
Copyright/credit: Giorgia Hofer
See explanation and HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231103.html
Anyone interested in a Live Stream of Jupiter through my telescope? It's at opposition and I have the opportunity to see it tonight!
https://youtube.com/live/EXgMS9gyVEQ?feature=share
#astronomy #astrophotography #space #astrodon #jupiter #livestream #youtube
Hubble Provides Unique Ultraviolet View of Jupiter https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-provides-unique-ultraviolet-view-of-jupiter/ #NASA #AstrophysicsDivision #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Jupiter #Missions #Planets #ScienceMissionDirectorate #TheSolarSystem
Giant #planets can be agents of chaos, ensuring nothing lives on their Earth-like neighbors around other #stars.
Around other stars, the giants tend to kick smaller planets out of orbit and wreak havoc on their climates.
#Jupiter's enormous gravity deflects comets and asteroids that might otherwise hit Earth, helping create a stable environment for life but giant planets elsewhere do not necessarily protect life on their smaller, rocky neighbors.
#exoplanets #astronomy
https://astrobiology.com/2023/11/giant-planets-cast-a-deadly-pall-how-they-can-prevent-life-in-other-solar-systems.html
#conjunction #moon #jupiter Snapshot with 300mm telephoto, Canon T5i. Exposure adjusted to better show Jupiter.
Tonight (Saturday, 28th October) see the full #HunterMoon rise just before #Jupiter, the pair following each other across the sky all night. Look low in the northeast at dusk.
📷: Stellarium
Short time lapse of tonight's #Jupiter with Io appearing from behind the planet. Covers 30 minutes of real time. 49 x 1000 x 12 ms RGB in Celestron 8" at f/10.
Y’all. The world feels like it’s falling apart. Here’s something beautiful for a moment of zen.
3 days ago the satellite Juno took this photo of Io, one of Jupiter’s most stunning moons.
Source:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyjOhGQMDdv/
More on Io:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)
#Astronomy #Space #Jupiter #JupiterMoons #Io #Juno #Photography
An absolutely enormous cyclone in Jupiter's north polar region. Imaged by the Juno spacecraft this weekend during Perijove 55.
This single storm measures to just under 6,000 kilometers wide, or about the distance between New York and Paris.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Here come the images of Jupiter from Juno Perijove 55.
This image, with some simple processing by me, was taken by Juno from a distance of 63,772 km from Jupiter's cloud-tops on Oct 15, 2023 at 10:05:01 UTC.
Check out the rest of the thread for more info on the NASA Juno mission and the spacecraft's close flyby of Jupiter and its moon Io last Sunday.
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/111237155349804868
Feel free to download raw images from https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing and experiment with photo editing.
#Juno #Jupiter
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Check out this thread for the reason why images of Io by Juno from 11,000 km don't look as sharp and detailed as this image taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1997 from an altitude of ~600,000 km.
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/109970775541515265
Has to do with the differences between the cameras and their focal lengths.
But the images by Juno in Dec 2023 and Feb 2024 from a distance of 1,500 km will likely rival this quality.
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01081
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13/n
Processed images of Io from Juno's Perijove 55 flyby are starting to get uploaded at the Juno website at https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing.
Here are two from @kevinmgill and Ted Stryk resp.
No raw images of the Jupiter close approach yet.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Ted Stryk
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12/n
Images from Juno PJ55 are already being uploaded at
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
There are a few raw images of Io at the site, some with Jupiter in the background; however, they require experts like @andrealuck and @kevinmgill to process them and turn them into visually striking images.
I will explain one day why these raw images look like the one shown below.
The image slices below were taken at 06:36:22 UTC yesterday from a distance of 21918.4 km from Io.
The 70 meter antenna at DSN Madrid is communicating with Juno.
Downlink rate = 200 kbps.
One-way light travel time = 36 minutes.
Lots of images and other science data needs to be downloaded.
#Jupiter from last night with Io transiting and casting a shadow on the surface.
Eight hours after its 55th flyby of Jupiter (Perijove 55) earlier today, the Juno spacecraft is racing away from Jupiter in its highly elliptical orbit. It is already 629,000 km away from Jupiter after coming within 4,040 km of its swirling cloud-tops around 10:55 UTC today.
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno?time=2023-10-15T18:55:00.000+00:00&rate=0
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9/n
Juno's primary mission ended in July 2021. The mission was then extended until 2025, with 42 additional orbits, including close passes of Jupiter’s north polar cyclones; flybys of Ganymede, Europa, and Io; as well as the first extensive exploration of the faint rings encircling the planet.
The later orbits spend more time inside Jupiter's ferocious radiation belts, risking damage to spacecraft electronics.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-mission-expands-into-the-future
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8/n
Bye bye Jupiter, we will see you again in 38 days.
Launched in 2011, the Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit in July 2016 and was expected to perform 36 science orbits around Jupiter and end the mission in early 2018. Instead, it has performed 55 longer-period orbits and will continue its extended mission at least until Sep 2025.
The graphic below shows the original set of orbits.
Have you noticed how NASA spacecraft are such over-achievers?
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/juno/overview/
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7/n
Here is the full image of the north pole region taken by Juno during PJ 54 on Sep 7, 2023 at 11:31:32.281 UTC, with some simple image processing by me.
Altitude = 29493.3 km
You can explore many more raw and processed images at https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing. Try your hand at copying some of the raw images and processing them in your favorite image processing app (I use PowerPoint 😜).
To go with your morning coffee, here is a close-up image (in false color) of the swirling cloud-tops over Jupiter's north pole, taken by Juno during Perijove 54 on Sep 7, 2023.
We can soon expect similar images and more from today's flyby of Io and Jupiter.
Credit : NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Navaneeth Krishnan S
Source: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?source=public&p=3
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5/n
The Juno spacecraft just made its 55th flyby of Jupiter (Perijove 55) moments ago around 6:55 a.m. EDT (10:55 UTC) Oct 15, 2023.
Altitude from Jupiter : 4040 km
Source: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno?rate=0&time=2023-10-15T10:55:00.000+00:00
Now we wait for its images of Jupiter and Io at https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
Here is a small sample of some dazzling images taken by Juno during its first 50 orbits around Jupiter.
Source: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasa-s-juno-mission-marks-50-orbits-around-jupiter?linkId=209241079
Many more images at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/Juno
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3/n
Here are a subset of the dates of Jupiter flybys of Juno.
Perijoves 55, 57 and 58 will feature close flybys of the moon Io; Juno will be just 1,500 km from Io's surface during PJ57 and PJ58!
Juno orbital period = 38 earth days.
Io orbital period = 42.5 hours (1.77 days).
Juno gets close to Io on every alternate orbit.
Juno orbital period after PJ57 will be 33 days, allowing it to visit Io on PJ58.
Source: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/jun2022/slides/Bolton.pdf
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The NASA Juno spacecraft will make its 55th flyby of Jupiter (Perijove 55) today around 7:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 UTC) Oct 15, 2023.
A few hours earlier, around 2:40 a.m. EDT (06:40 UTC), it will observe the Galilean moon Io from a distance of ~11,000 km, the closest it has been to Io so far.
Check out https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/110803209370702905 and https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/110378546643960971 for more info on Juno and on Io.
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno?rate=0&time=2023-10-15T11:00:00.000+00:00
Images will be posted here soon - https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
On the night of November 2-3 the Earth will pass between the Sun and Jupiter, which means the planet will be at its closest to the Earth around these dates.
This cosmic event is known as the opposition of Jupiter.
It's the best time of the year to see the planet with the naked eye as it also reaches its peak brightness.
On this occasion, Jupiter will be around 33 million km (20.5 million miles) closer to us than average. 1/2
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