Astronomy Blog

Jupiter has had an additional impact as you are able to see in the video, this one on August 20th.  Challenging to say what the impacting body was.  There weren’t any black plumes so it could be the density/mass wasn’t like the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet (D/1993 F2) of 1994. Then once more trajectory and velocity [...]

Jupiter will be the biggest earth in the Solar Program. It can be located all-around 500 million miles from the Sun, and its atmosphere is produced up of 90 % of hydrogen, 10 % of helium and small bit of methane and ammonia. Besides the sun, Jupiter also emits heat into our Solar Technique. Essentially the most interesting [...]