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2 days ago · Seeing not just one, but two of these satellites in the night sky might be spectacular. Let’s assume our second moon would be around 1,000 km (620 miles) wide and about one-thirtieth the mass of ...
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2 days ago · Callisto: this heavily cratered moon is the third largest in our solar system. Although Callisto is the furthest away of the Galilean moons, it only takes 17 days to complete an orbit around Jupiter. Io: the closest moon and third largest in this system, Io is an extremely active world, due to the push and pull of Jupiter’s gravity. The ...
2 days ago · The next Full Moon in 2024 is at 2:26 p.m. ET on Monday, Aug. 19, and is called the Sturgeon Moon. It's the eighth Full Moon of the year.
2 days ago · September 29 and 30 mornings: Moon and Regulus. On the final two mornings of September 2024, the waning crescent moon will float in the eastern morning sky. On September 29, 2024, it will lie...
5 days ago · There are two lunar eclipses in 2024. Our guide tells you how you can see them and when the next lunar eclipse will occur.
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3 days ago · Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system and the fifth in distance from the Sun. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; only the Moon, Venus, and sometimes Mars are more brilliant. Jupiter takes nearly 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and it rotates once about every 10 hours.
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3 days ago · The planet’s two moons, Phobos (Greek: “Fear”) and Deimos (“Terror”), were named for two of the sons of Ares and Aphrodite (the counterparts of Mars and Venus, respectively, in Greek mythology).