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Dramatic Jupiter

26 February 2019 Astronomy Now

Dramatic atmospheric features in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere are captured in this view from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Israeli moon lander

24 February 2019 Astronomy Now

A small privately-funded Israeli spacecraft is on its way to the moon, the first non-superpower attempt to land on the surface of another world.

New Horizons returns best view yet of Ultima Thule

23 February 2019 Astronomy Now

NASA’s New Horizons probe has sent back its best view yet of Ultima Thule, taken just 6.5 minutes before closest approach on New Year’s Day.

How’s the weather on Mars? Cold, with a chance of dust devils

19 February 2019 Astronomy Now

Weather data from NASA’s InSight Mars lander is now posted daily, allowing armchair astronauts to better appreciate conditions on the red planet.

New radio map reveals huge number of previously unseen galaxies

19 February 2019 Astronomy Now

A new radio map showing a small portion of the northern sky gives researchers a powerful new tool for studying galaxy clusters and supermassive black holes.

Hubble looks into the heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy

18 February 2019 Astronomy Now

The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as M51, is familiar to legions of amateur astronomers as a relatively faint face-on spiral with a smaller companion galaxy, but the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Whirlpool in all its splendour, a magnificent spiral studded with countless clusters and dust lanes.

Articles by Astronomy Now

Dramatic Jupiter

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Israeli moon lander

New Horizons returns best view yet of Ultima Thule

How’s the weather on Mars? Cold, with a chance of dust devils

New radio map reveals huge number of previously unseen galaxies

Hubble looks into the heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy

Gravity waves may help resolve Hubble constant conundrum

NASA selects mission to explore origins of cosmos

End of an era: NASA gives up on Opportunity rover

Ultima Thule even stranger than previously thought