Explanation: How many moons can you see? The best answer is five: four orbiting Jupiter and Luna orbiting Earth. This multi-moon picture was possible because Earth’s Moon moved directly in front of Jupiter last week. The featured image is a series of exposures near alignment taken from Westchester, New York, USA. The sunlit crescent of
Fictional French President Paul Archambault, as played with gimlet-eyed resolve by Denis Menochet in Alexandre Smia‘s “Jupiter” is, we’re cued to believe, a good man. Thrust suddenly into a lurching nuclear crisis, he gathers ministers and advisers around him and listens intently to their staunchly opposing views on escalation vs appeasement. They are also good
Read this story in Spanish. here. NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant warming within the shallow subsurface of the solar system’s most volcanically active world. Data collected during two close flybys also show that most of Io’s surface is remarkably smooth
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