Lucy Spacecraft’s Second Slingshot of Earth - YouTube - NASA Goddard - solar system studies

Lucy is a NASA space probe that is on a twelve year mission to eight different asteroids.It is slated to visit two Main Belt Asteroids,as well as six Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun.All encounters will be flyby encounters.The mission is named for the Lucy hominim fossils,because the study of the Trojans could reveal the fossils of planetary formation:materials that clumped together in the early history of the solar system to form planets and other bodies.*Lucy's instruments are:Long Range Reconaissance Imager (L'LORRI);Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (L'RALPH) and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer( L'TES).Principal Investigator is Harold F. Levison of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder,Colorado.Simone Marchi of SRI is the Mission's Deputy Principal Investigator.NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland executes the mission under the direction of the Planetary Mission Program Office at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.*The Lucy spacecraft was launched from what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex-41 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket on 16 October 2021.*United Launch Alliance is a joint venture of Boeing Space and Defense and Lockheed Martin Space.Boeing (BA),Lockheed Martin (LMT)

Blastoff! SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches Europa Clipper to Jupiter's ocean moon - YouTube - Space.com - astrobiology

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will ascertain whether Jupiter's moon Europa is habitable.

See Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter in amazing Sun observatory time-lapse - YouTube - Space.com

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A) from 11-19 April 2024.

Hubble Observes Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Changing - NASA Goddard - planetary science

While the outer part of the spot is speeding up,the inner part of the spot is slowing down.It is a mystery.

Hubble Tracks Jupiter’s Stormy Weather - NASA Goddard - planetary science

Image Credit:Hubble Captures Volcanic Eruption Plume From Io Credit:John Spencer,Lowell Observatory,and NASA/ESA Lowell Observatory is located in Flagstaff,Arizona.

Planets, Harvest Moon and Zodiacal Light in Sept. 2023 skywatching - NASA

NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io - planetary science - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech

NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io: The gas giant orbiter has flown over 510 million miles and also documented close encounters with three of Jupiter’s four largest moons. Lockheed Martin (LMT)

Meteorite Confirmed by The College of New Jersey and Expert Consultant

The object that slammed through the roof of a Hopwell Township,New Jersey home has been confirmed to be a stony chondrite meteorite by physicists of The College of New Jersey and their expert consultant.That means it is a piece of an asteroid that formed in the early solar system.Tests performed included visual examination;scanning electron microscope images;density measurements;and an expert assessment by Jerry Delaney,a retired meteorite expert from Rutgers University and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.* The Associated Press reported that the Physics Department Chairman,Nathan Magee,said that: the object is a true chondrite meteorite,in excellent condition,and one of a very small number of similar witnessed chondrite falls known to science.* Indeed,the space rock was still warm when the Kop family found it in a bedroom.A stony chondrite meteorite is one which has not been modified by either melting or differentiation of the parent body.They are formed when various types of dust and small grains in the early solar system accrete to form primitive asteroids.Embedded in the dust are presolar grains which predate the formation of the solar system and came from elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy.The chondrules,or round grains,from which the meteorite gets its name were molten or partially molten droplets in space believed to have formed when a shock wave passed through the solar system,perhaps a shock wave from the gaseous disk that formed Jupiter,a recent study suggests.* These meteorites of asteroid origin date back more than 4.54 billion years.They are pieces of small to medium asteroids that were never part of a celestial object large enough to undergo melting and planetary differentiation.

Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons at Jupiter and Uranus - NASA - photos - planetary science

Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons at Jupiter and Uranus: Hubble – as interplanetary meteorologist – is keeping track of the outer planets' weather, as it does every year.

NASA Telescope Spots Highest-Energy Light Ever Detected From Jupiter

NASA Telescope Spots Highest-Energy Light Ever Detected From Jupiter: The planet’s auroras are known to produce low-energy X-ray light. A new study finally reveals higher-frequency X-rays and explains why they eluded another mission 30 years ago.