[The Epoch Times, April 11, 2022](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Lin Zixin, Taipei, Taiwan) At 4:00 am on April 13 (Wednesday), “JupitercombineNeptune”, Jupiter and Neptune will be only 0.11 degrees apart, less than 1/5 of the diameter of the full moon. Jupiter conjunct Neptune will only happen once every 12 to 13 years on average. … Read more
Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory have measured unexpected temperature changes on Neptune. Between 2003 and 2018, the global average temperature on the ice giant fell by eight degrees Celsius, writes a team led by Michael Roman from the University of Leicester and Glenn Orton from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Planetary Science Journal. … Read more
NASA announced that Hubble Space Telescope He discovered a planet with a mass nine times that of Jupiter. According to Britain’s Daily Mail, the newly formed planet, called AB Aurigae b, is a gas giant at a remarkably early stage of formation, orbiting a star called AB Aurigae. AB Aurigae b orbits the star at … Read more
Jupiter is the fifth and largest body in the solar system, and its weight is more than twice the mass of all other planets, according to the NASA website; Many information about the planet indicated that its stripes are cold and stormy clouds of ammonia and water, in addition to the presence of hydrogen … Read more
03:20 PM Saturday 05 March 2022 Books – Youssef Afifi: The Jeddah Astronomical Society revealed the details of an astronomical phenomenon in the sky of the Arab world and the world, represented in the passage of Jupiter near the sun this Saturday evening. The association said, on its official page on Facebook, that Jupiter passes … Read more
Astronomers have captured for the first time photographs of the night side of hot Jupiter WASP-121b. Because of special circumstances formed on this side of the planet, scientists do not rule out the presence of clouds of iron and aluminum oxide, as a mineral that forms the basis for sapphire. The results of the study … Read more
Exoplanets come in many sizes and sometimes even unusual shapes, and the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered a rugby ball-shaped planet, pulled into that shape by intense gravitational forces, according to a digitaltrend report. The planet, called WASP-103b in the constellation Hercules, experiences epic tidal forces due to orbiting near its star … Read more
05:28 PM Thursday 06 January 2022 Books – Youssef Afifi: It appears in the sky of Egypt and the Arab world after sunset today, Thursday, and the beginning of the night, the conjunction of the moon with Jupiter, in a beautiful view, easily seen with the naked eye, and it is an ideal opportunity for … Read more