March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... the ARIEL ESA Candidate mission and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. References 1 Mayor M, Queloz D (1995) A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star. Nature 378:355-359 2 Tinetti G, Encrenaz T & Coustenis A. Astron Astrophys Rev...
04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
... phase and the stakes are exceedingly high. If the Jupiter Orbit Insertion burn fails to insert the spacecraft into orbit... approach and in doing so, JUNO will hopefully shed light on how Jupiter formed and evolved. All that is left to say is ‘Watch...
27 September 2016
Astronomers observe possible water vapour plumes on Europa
...around Europa, it has the potential to block some of the light of Jupiter, and we could see it as a silhouette. And so we were ...the limb of Europa as it transited the smooth face of Jupiter." But it turned out that after observing Europa for fifteen ...
26 April 2016
Sulphur chemistry could be the key to clouds on many exoplanets
...that, but the first exoplanet photochemical models of hot Jupiters, showed that small hydrocarbons would not condense in ...as 51 Eri b, a young planet twice the mass of Jupiter, analysis strongly suggest that clouds, possibly patchy ones, are present...
29 August 2019
Have researchers found the first volcanically active exomoon?
...potentially found an active exomoon that is an extreme version of Jupiter’s moon Io – a sodium spewing, lava flowing hot body ... an exoplanet system known as WASP-49b. Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, is not only pretty big – it is ...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... use of the term satellites goes back to the discovery of the telescope and Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter. He needed a name to describe these small objects, rapidly rotating about the giant planet, which was named...
