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JUICE heading for Jupiter this week

JUICE, the next great Jupiter-bound spacecraft, is scheduled to be launched this Thursday April 13, at 12:15 UT, from the

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Deep Sky Update – March 2023

March was not terribly good for observing for me – though I did see aurorae on two nights, one of

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R Sedrani Mars 22 March 2023 crop

Mars Opposition Blog 27 March 2023

Observations are continuing, although the disk diameter is now only some 6 arcseconds. It is a challenging planet visually, requiring

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Juno at PJ49

Here is our report on the PJ49 images.  Results at PJ49 were again mixed: for the third successive perijove, some

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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)

This recently discovered comet, announced on CBET 5228, may become a bright object in October next year but it is

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Deep Sky Update – February 2023

February has been a strange month up here in Orkney – we went from 80 mph winds to windless conditions,

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Latest Data and Lightcurve Plot of 29P

<= Back to MISSION 29P Homepage 29P’s Lightcurve for the current apparition, 2024‒2025 N.B. the observations listing below is usually

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Astronaut Scott Kelly posted this photo taken from the International Space Station to Twitter on July 19, 2015 with the caption, "Day 114. #Moon #Venus #Jupiter...#Earth Good night from @space_station! #YearInSpace". Credit Scott Kelly/NASA

Venus and Jupiter Conjunction – 1-2 March 2023

Over the past week, you might have noticed two brilliant objects getting close together in the west not long after

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Mars 02 12 2023 E Morales

Mars Opposition Blog 19 February 2023

With the arrival of batches of drawings from M.Green, A.W.Heath and P.Lyon the total number of observers has risen to

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JUNOCAM GLOBAL MAPS

JUNOCAM CYLINDRICAL MAPS This page presents the global cylindrical maps of Jupiter produced at each perijove from the JunoCam images,

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