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Jupiter and the Meteors from Gemini

By |2025-12-18T15:44:24-05:00December 18th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Jupiter, the Solar System's ruling gas giant, is the brightest celestial beacon at the center of this composite night skyscape. The scene was constructed by selecting the 40 exposures containing meteors from about 500 exposures made on the nights of December 13 and 14, near peak activity for this year's [...]

Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb

By |2025-04-02T09:09:07-04:00April 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's main ring was discovered in 1979 by NASA's passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but its origin was then a mystery. Data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, however, confirmed the hypothesis that this ring was created by meteoroid impacts on [...]

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