Category: Solar System
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How to Photograph the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter
Tips for photographing the sky during December’s conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter
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There’s Water on the Moon?
For the first time, NASA has confirmed the water molecule, H2O, in sunlit areas of the Moon, indicating that water is widely distributed across the lunar surface.
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NASA’s Webb To Examine Objects in the Graveyard of the Solar System
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, a diverse collection of thousands of dwarf planets and other relatively small objects dwells in a region called the Kuiper Belt. These often-pristine leftovers from our solar system’s days of planet formation are called Kuiper…
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Everything You Need to Know About the Halloween (Boo!) Moon
This week’s full Moon will deliver more than just Halloween ambience.
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Hubble Captures Crisp New Portrait of Jupiter’s Storms
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020, was captured when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth. Hubble’s sharp view is giving researchers an updated weather report on the monster planet’s…
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My Culture, My Voice
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Hernandez, an instrument engineer on the Mars 2020 mission, talks about her childhood and journey to NASA.
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Announcement About Research on Venus’s Chemistry
Venus is proving to be an exciting place of discovery, though it had not been a significant part of the search for life because of its extreme temperatures, atmospheric composition and other factors.
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Hubble Snaps Close-Up of Celebrity Comet NEOWISE
NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on Aug. 8, zero in on the visitor’s coma, the gossamer shell of gas and dust that surrounds its nucleus as it is heated by the Sun. This is the first…
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Científicos descubren un nuevo fenomeno en las nubes de Venus
Las nubes de Venus albergan un nuevo fenómeno atmosférico nunca visto en nuestro sistema solar.
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Study Jupiter, its Rings, and Two Intriguing Moons
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center of the universe in the early 17th century.…