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The Sky This Week from April 4 to 11: Catch your last views of Uranus
A waxing Moon brightens the sky as we catch our last looks at Uranus and view Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars in the sky ...
Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought
Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 ...
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April 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Jupiter and Mars remain prominent, while Venus, Mercury, and Saturn rule the morning skies
The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in ...
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What Makes a Moon?
Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede is generating 'killer' electromagnetic waves that could damage spacecraft
Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede is generating "killer" waves of electrons that astronomers say could damage spacecraft going on future missions. These electromagnetic waves can be found all around ...
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Video: Arrival of JUICE at Jupiter's moon Ganymede
Towards the end of the mission, the JUICE probe dedicates its experiments in detail to the largest moon in our Solar System, Ganymede. The focus is on a suspected ocean under a kilometre-thick ice ...
Top 7 largest moons in solar system captured by NASA
Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.