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Jupiter in 2016-17

The new apparition has begun with a bang! On Oct.19, just as Juno was drifting passively through its second perijove,

On Weds. Oct.19, the Juno spacecraft failed to return any data at its second perijove. But at about the

NASA has announced a change to the Juno mission schedule. Mission managers have decided to postpone the upcoming burn of

We have received the very sad news of the death, at 79, of the Ukrainian cometary astronomer Klim Ivanovich Churyumov. Churyumov was,

On March 23, Damian Peach (Barbados) and Christopher Go (Philippines) took top-quality images exactly one jovian rotation apart, so they

Before and after its first perijove on Aug.27, Juno’s camera was taking frequent shots of the whole planet, nicknamed ‘marble

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole, taken during the spacecraft’s first flyby of

In addition to the public release images of the north and south polar regions [see previous post], which were fully

A week ago, NASA released an impressive sample of images from Juno’s first operational perijove on August 27. They included