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Jupiter’s big moon Ganymede casts giant shadow in stunning Juno photo by citizen scientist

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A powerful new picture of Jupiter posted by a citizen scientist shows the planet looming large with the shadow of its biggest moon Ganymede blanketing its clouds. The image comes from Kevin M. Gill, who posted copies on Twitter and Flickr  after analyzing data from the Juno spacecraft’s 20th close flyby of May 2019. Like … Read more

A Cosmic Water Cloud Shadow Has Revealed The Temperature of The Early Universe

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Sometimes astronomers and astrophysicists are working at such gigantic, mind-bending scales – in terms of both distance and time – that you can’t help but be awestruck at the new discoveries they keep coming out with.   Case in point: a temperature check of the Universe in its youngest phase, just 880 million years after … Read more