NAPLES — A Jupiter woman was among the three survivors of a plane crash Friday on Interstate 75 in Naples that left two people dead, authorities said. Crew member Sydney Ann Bosmans, 27, of Jupiter, and passengers Aaron Baker, 35, and Audra Green, 23, of Columbus, Ohio, survived the crash when a Bombardier Challenger 600-series […]
A little moonlet, too small to be seen from Earth, could be playing cosmic sheepdog by shaping the thin rings around the distant minor planet Chariklo, according to new computer simulations. Chariklo is a Centaur — a breed of small body that orbits the sun on a path sandwiched somewhere between Jupiter and Neptune. Centaurs […]
Health officials are advising people not to swim at Dubois park in Jupiter and at Lantana Beach after tests this week found high bacteria levels in their waters. Water samples at both locations on Monday showed “poor” levels of the enterococcus bacteria, which can lead to internal infections, the Florida Department of Health for Palm […]
In October, NASA’s scheduled to launch a spacecraft to one of Jupiter’s 92 known moons, an icy marble named Europa. The probe’s main purpose? To help scientists figure out if Europa can support life as we know it. This robotic explorer is aptly called the Europa Clipper, and, according to a release put out by […]
Two skywatching favorites will meet up in the clear winter night sky tonight. The moon and Jupiter will appear close together in the Aries constellation, offering the chance to see five moons at once through the right binoculars. Jupiter’s four largest satellites, called the Galilean moons, will appear in pairs on either side of the […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has seen cyclones raging in the dynamic atmosphere of a hot Jupiter located 880 light years away, thanks to observations and computer modeling that could one day be applied to characterize weather on smaller, rocky exoplanets. The planet, dubbed WASP-121b, has a mass about 1.16 times greater than our solar system’s […]
Jan. 1—Planetary scientist Ingrid Daubar wants students to know there are many different paths available to them in the sciences, including the one that took her from the East Lyme High School Planetarium to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Almost 30 years from her high school graduation, Dauber is now a staff scientist with the laboratory’s […]
NASA is building a roadmap for robots that could visit ocean worlds through future space missions and crack the worlds’ thick, icy shells to explore subsurface seas in search of life. Recently, the space agency revealed results from a NASA-sponsored workshop held in Feb. 2023 at which scientists and engineers gathered to discuss possible “cryobot” […]
The moon will meet up with Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet, for the last time in 2023 on Friday (Dec. 22) when the two celestial bodies make a close approach in the sky. Around the same time, the two celestial bodies will share the same right ascension, an arrangement astronomers call a conjunction. The […]
Astronomers have discovered not one but two planetary systems with sun-like stars at their hearts. Both of these systems contain mini-Neptune planets and one harbors a huge “super-Jupiter” world, all of which are many times more massive than Earth. Studying the realms could lead to a better understanding of how planets form and evolve around […]
While watching the atmosphere of seven “hot Jupiters” blow away, a suitcase-sized cubesat has found some surprising variations in how quickly the giant, bloated worlds are evaporating. CUTE, which stands for the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment, was launched in September 2021 and orbits the Earth at an altitude of 525 kilometers (326 miles). It is […]