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The aurora detected on this cold, isolated failed star is puzzling astronomers, who aren’t sure what’s causing the light show.

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Juno has been studying Jupiter and its moons since it arrived at the giant planet in 2016. Here are 4

An audio track collected during Jupiter mission’s Ganymede flyby offers a dramatic ride-along. It is one of the highlights scientists shared in brief.

A mysterious luminous glow visible just before dawn, known as the zodiacal light, could be the result of tiny particles of dust being shed from Mars, NASA claims. The zodiacal light is a faint column of light extending up from the horizon - it is sunlight reflected towards Earth by a cloud of dust particles in orbit around the sun.  The NASA Juno probe, which was launched in 2011 to orbit Jupiter, serendipitously detected dust particles slamming into the spacecraft on the way aroundthe gas gia...

March 10, 2021 The zodiacal light is a strange pyramid of light that extends from the eastern or western horizon, before dawn or as true darkness falls. It was known to stem from dust moving in the plane of our solar system. The Juno spacecraft has found that Mars might be the source of the dust. From Northern Hemisphere locations, in the weeks and months around the equinox, you can look west each evening after true darkness falls toward a mysterious hazy pyramid of light. It’s called the zod...