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<strong>Bengaluru,</strong> State-run <keyword id="415634" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jawaharlal-Nehru-Planetarium">Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium</keyword> in the <keyword id="24914" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="City-centre">city centre</keyword> has made arrangements to watch the <keyword id="10465369" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="celestial-conjunction">celestial conjunction</keyword> of <keyword id="34757" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jupiter">Jupiter</keyword> and <keyword id="10465370" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="saturn-planets">Saturn planets</keyword> on Monday between 6.30-7.30 p.m., an official said on Sunday.<br /><br />"We have set up telescopes in our premises to watch the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on Monday evening if weather conditions permit," said the planetarium official in a statement here.<br /><br />Due to the Covid-induced restrictions on people gathering in large numbers in public places, those who register online to watch the <keyword id="862697" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="celestial-event">celestial event</keyword> will be allowed in the planetarium in batches of limited numbers to maintain social distancing.<br /><br />"Those unable to watch the event at the planetarium due to curbs on crowding, can see the conjunction of the two stars online at our website (www.taralaya.org) or Facebook and Youtube channel," said the statement.<br /><br />As the <keyword id="10465371" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="fifth-planet">fifth planet</keyword> from the sun, Jupiter is the largest in the solar system, as a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth of the Sun.<br /><br />"As the sixth planet from the sun and second largest in the solar system, Saturn is a gas giant with an average radius of nine times that of earth," added the official.<br /><br />The conjunction also coincides with the longest day (December 21) in the year as the sun reaches a point where it appears to shine farthest to the south of equator over the Tropic of Capricorn, marking the start of the winter solstice.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/ikea-india-cfo-says-she-still-has-3500-crore-to-be-spent-in-india-the-pandemic-has-changed-targets-but-not-the-investment-plan/articleshow/79790938.cms">INTERVIEW: Ikea CFO says she still has ₹3,500 crore to be spent in India⁠— the pandemic has changed targets but not the investment plan</a><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/india-will-produce-300-million-doses-of-the-russian-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-next-year/articleshow/79795341.cms">India will produce 300 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine next year</a><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/how-to-check-mrs-bectors-food-specialities-ipo-allotment-status-online/articleshow/79808672.cms">Mrs Bectors Food Specialities IPO allotment: Here’s how to check share allotment status</a></strong>

Watch Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in Bengaluru

Researchers have discovered a new "fiery, glowing red" <keyword id="20349430" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="exoplanet" source="keywords">exoplanet</keyword> displaying intense <keyword id="19916428" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="volcanic-activity" source="keywords">volcanic activity</keyword> similar to Jupiter's moon Io. Further, the many active volcanoes on the exoplanet could be making its surface hotter than some stars, they said. <br /><br />In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signals for a new rocky planet about a third larger than Earth. The signals were captured by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which searches for exoplanets or planets outside our solar system, orbiting the brightest stars in the sky. <br /><br />The team, including researchers from the University of California Riverside, US, said that the star system, called <keyword id="21639491" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="HD-104067" source="keywords">HD 104067</keyword>, was already known to harbour a giant planet. While gathering data on the planet, Stephen Kane, a professor of Planetary Astrophysics, "unexpectedly" found another "fiery" one, taking the count of planets in the star system to three. <br /><br />"At optical wavelengths, you would be able to see a glowing, red-hot planet with a molten lava surface," Kane, lead author of the study published in The Astronomical Journal, said. <br /><br />The newly discovered rocky exoplanet, named <keyword id="21639492" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="TOI-6713-01" source="keywords">TOI-6713.01</keyword>, has a lot in common with Jupiter's rocky innermost moon, Io, and is known to be the most volcanically active body in our solar system, Kane said. <br /><br />The researchers explained that gravitational forces exerted by the other two planets in the system force this rocky planet into an elliptical or "eccentric" orbit around their star. <br /><br />The star, to which TOI-6713.01 is closer than the other planets, "squeezes" the rocky planet as it orbits and rotates because of gravity, thereby causing tides on the planet's surface in the form of volcanoes. <br /><br />Likening the scenario to "racquetball", Kane explained that the rocky inner planet gets hotter as it is constantly bounced around by the other two planets and squeezed by the star. <br /><br />"It's been forced into a situation where it's constantly exploding with volcanoes," he said. <br /><br />The extreme volcanic activity could be making the surface of TOI-6713.01 hotter than some stars, Kane said, as he calculated the surface temperature to be 2,600 degrees Kelvin or 2,330 degrees Celsius. <br /><br />The intense volcanic activity on <keyword id="21639489" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jupiters-Io" source="keywords">Jupiter's Io</keyword> is also due to the gravity exerted by the other moons of the solar system's biggest planet, which itself has a strong gravitational pull, the researchers said. <br /><br />Io is thus "forced" into an eccentric orbit around the planet, Kane explained. <br /><br />"If the other moons weren't there, Io would be in a circular orbit around the planet and it would be quiet on the surface. Instead, Jupiter's gravity squeezes Io so much that it erupts in volcanoes constantly," Kane said. <br /><br />On Earth, tides are the effect of moon's gravity on our oceans. <br /><br />The researchers said the findings reveal a lot about the extremes in amounts of energy that can be pumped into a rocky planet, such as TOI-6713.01. <br /><br />Further, tidal effects on planets haven't historically been a focus of exoplanet research, which Kane hopes might change with this discovery. <br /><br />"While we know that stars contribute to the heat of a planet, the vast majority of the energy here is tidal and that cannot be ignored," he said.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/aadhar-housing-finance-ipo-allotment-how-to-check-allotment-gmp-listing-date-and-more/articleshow/110071990.cms">Aadhar Housing Finance IPO allotment – How to check allotment, GMP, listing date and more</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/sports/webstories/ipl-decoded-highest-individual-scores-in-ipl-2024-so-far-from-stoinis-to-kohli/slidelist/110008351.cms">IPL Decoded: Highest individual scores in IPL 2024 so far, from Stoinis to Kohli</a><br /><br /></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/indian-smartphone-market-up-8-5g-smartphones-account-for-over-70-of-shipments/articleshow/110002512.cms"><strong>Indian smartphone market up 8%, 5G smartphones account for over 70% of shipments</strong></a><br />

New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In order to gain insight into the behavior and personality of one of history's most brutal tyrants, palmist Josef Ranald analyzed Hitler's handprint prior to World War II.</span></p><p>In 1938, Ranald published his findings in his book, "<a href="https://archive.org/details/howtoknowpeopleb00ranarich" target="_blank">How to Know People By Their Hands</a>," even though he was concerned about giving too <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">detailed a description of Hitler's palm.</span></p><p>Ranald feared that "others, finding signs similar to one or two of Hitler's in their own hands may assign to themselves the qualities which make Hitler what he is," <a href="https://archive.org/details/howtoknowpeopleb00ranarich" target="_blank">he writes</a>.</p><p>"For this reason, I wish again to emphasize that no single sign or set of signs can be read apart from the indications of the hand as a whole. It is only from the study of the totality of a hand that an accurate analysis can be made."</p><p>Ranald also studied the palms of Italian fascist leader <span>Benito Mussolini, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Walt Disney.</span></p><h3>Life Line</h3><p>Hitler's line of life, which arches around his thumb, ends<span> in a cross</span> near the base of his hand. The cross signals a "violent end" to his life, according to Ranald.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></p><h3>Destiny Line</h3><p>"This line marks the destiny of a man whose fate is out of his control," <span>Ranald</span> writes. Hitler's destiny line on his palm shows that he will serve "an awful, tragic role" in life.</p><p>"The destiny line, you will note, stretches unbroken and bare from its tragic beginning to its violent end," Ranald writes. </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></p><h3><span>Underneath the Jupiter and Saturn fingers</span></h3><p>The base of the Jupiter finger first shows that Hitler is a bully with "boundless ambition" that demands "blind submission from everyone," according to Ranald.</p><p>The base of the Saturn finger indicates "moodiness, wide swings from one emotional extreme to another [and] suicidal morbidity at one moment..." His fingers also show that he is delusional and obsessed with power.</p><p><span><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div><br /></span></p><h3>Line of head</h3><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Hitler's line of head ends in the middle of his palm which indicates "some kind of weakness - functional or organic - of the brain," Ranald writes. </span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></p><h3>Heart line</h3><p>Hitler's short and broken heart line shows that he is frustrated, bitter, and cruel. "<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The broken, distorted girdle of Venus above the line of heart accentuates the destructiveness and unnaturalness of this hand," Ranald writes.</span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-earth-would-look-like-if-ice-melted-world-map-animation-2015-2">Animated map of what Earth would look like if all the ice melted</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="5xam5iczrSx4Ibx8MvarDsu3zOG88omE" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

On the eve of World War II, a palm reader shared his insights into Hitler's behavior and future

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/136797589@N04/25480807728/">NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran</a></span></p><p class="caption">The planet Jupiter.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>NASA's probe at Jupiter, called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/juno">Juno</a>, has orbited the gas giant since July 2015.</strong></li><li><strong>The $1 billion mission was supposed to crash into <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jupiter">Jupiter</a>'s clouds in July 2018, but sources told Business Insider that the mission was getting a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-mission-extended-2018-6">three-year extension</a>.</strong></li><li><strong>On Thursday, NASA confirmed that the mission will be extended through July 2021.</strong></li></ul><p>NASA has officially announced that its $1 billion Juno mission is getting a critical life extension to study planet Jupiter.</p><p>Instead of being crashed into the planet's cloud tops next month, Juno will fly until at least July 2021, according to <a href="https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasa-replans-junos-jupiter-mission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> issued by the Southwest Research Institute, which operates the pinwheel-shaped, tennis-court-size robot.</p><p>Business Insider <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-mission-extended-2018-6">reported on Monday that Juno's mission would be extended</a>, and an official statement about the decision was released today. The probe has orbited Jupiter since July 2015, but engine trouble forced scientists to collect data about four times more slowly than they'd originally hoped.</p><p>"Juno needs more time to gather our planned scientific measurements," Scott Bolton, the Juno mission's leader and a planetary scientist at the SwRI, told Gizmodo <a href="https://gizmodo.com/nasa-to-extend-juno-jupiter-mission-by-three-years-1826581220" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on Tuesday</a>.</p><p>Ever since arriving at Jupiter, the $1 billion mission has peeled back the giant planet's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-engine-safe-mode-issues-2016-10">thick cloud layers</a>, searched for an elusive core, and returned <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-pictures-nasa-juno-spacecraft-2018-4">dazzling images</a> of colossal <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-pole-storm-pictures-nasa-juno-2018-4">storms</a> and chaotic <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-clouds-storms-pictures-nasa-juno-mission-perijove-13-2018-5">cloud bands</a>.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/39151111202/">NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin Gill</a></span></p><p class="caption">An illustration of NASA's Juno spacecraft flying above the clouds of Jupiter.</p></div><p></p></div></div>But all good things must come to an end, and Juno is no exception.</p><p>NASA planned to destroy the tennis-court-size robot by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-juno-probe-will-crash-into-jupiter-2016-7">plunging it</a> into Jupiter's clouds sometime after July 2018. The rationale is similar to the Cassini probe's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-cassini-probe-destroyed-by-saturn-2017-9">recent demise</a>: Jupiter's icy moon Europa <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-moon-europa-ocean-water-plume-evidence-2018-5">may be habitable to alien life</a>, so carefully and deliberately ending the mission would prevent Juno from accidentally crashing into that moon. This would keep Europa's ocean - which may have <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/earth-water-ice-volume-versus-planets-moons-2016-11">twice as much water</a> as exists on Earth - from getting contaminated by any earthly microbes stuck to Juno.</p><p>Now that Juno can fly through July 2021 (and scientific work is funded through September 2022), scientists have a chance to complete the mission's main goal: mapping Jupiter's magnetic and gravitational fields in exhausting detail.</p><h2>Why Juno badly needed a mission extension</h2><p>Spending too much time in Jupiter's powerful radiation field can <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/voyager-kitchen-aluminum-wrap-radiation-short-circuit-2017-9">damage sensitive electronics</a>. As a result, Juno orbits the planet on a highly elliptical path that regularly zooms it at 130,000 mph over the cloud tops for detailed observations - a maneuver called a perijove.</p><p>Each perijove helps protect Juno from harm while enabling it to build a global, slice-by-slice map of Jupiter using a suite of scientific instruments. Tools record data about the planet's gravitational field, magnetism, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-aurora-sounds-2016-9">brilliant auroras</a>, and <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/juno-solves-39-year-old-mystery-of-jupiter-lightning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lightning</a>.</p><p>But due to lingering trouble with Juno's propulsion system, the team would only have completed 14 of the 32 perijoves that it needs to finish mapping Jupiter by July 2018, the mission's prior end date. </p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/sites/default/files/conversations/Juno_Bolton_20170726_Juno_Science_Update.pdf">Scott Bolton/Southwest Research Institute</a></span></p><p class="caption">A diagram of Jupiter's orbits.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>When Juno arrived in July 2016, mission managers had the spacecraft orbit Jupiter once every 53.5 days. In October 2016, they planned to fire up the probe's engines and speed Juno's orbits to once every 14 days - until the team discovered some sticky valves in the engine system's plumbing.</p><p>NASA ultimately <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-juno-mission-to-remain-in-current-orbit-at-jupiter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">played it safe</a> by not using the engines to achieve shorter orbits, delaying Juno's mapping pace nearly four-fold.</p><p>"During a thorough review, we looked at multiple scenarios that would place Juno in a shorter-period orbit, but there was concern that another main engine burn could result in a less-than-desirable orbit," Rick Nybakken, Juno's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a 2017 <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-juno-mission-to-remain-in-current-orbit-at-jupiter">press release</a>. "The bottom line is a burn represented a risk to completion of Juno's <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword> objectives."</p><p>The Juno mission leaders received a memo authorizing the extension in mid-May. That decision will help scientists construct a detailed map of Jupiter's gravitational field. That data may reveal what is going on deep inside the giant yet mysterious world.</p><p>"It is very exciting for us to be able to complete the mission pretty much as it was originally proposed, except with longer orbits," Frederic Allegrini, a staff scientist at Southwest Research Institute who works on the Juno mission, told Business Insider on Monday.</p><p>If Juno stays operational and productive over the next few years, NASA might again decide to keep flying the probe around Jupiter beyond July 2021.</p>     <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/images-jupiter-great-red-spot-nasa-juno-2017-7">NASA released the closest-ever images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

NASA has confirmed that its $1 billion Jupiter mission will cheat death for at least 3 more years

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/juno/overview/">NASA/JPL-Caltech</a></span></p><p class="caption">An illustration of NASA's Juno spacecraft flying through the radiation belts of Jupiter.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/juno">Juno</a>, NASA's probe at Jupiter, has orbited the giant planet for nearly two years.</strong></li><li><strong>The $1 billion mission was scheduled to end with a crash into <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jupiter">Jupiter</a>'s clouds after July 2018.</strong></li><li><strong>However, NASA sources have confirmed that the mission will be extended through July 2021.</strong></li></ul><p>For the past two years, NASA's Juno probe has studied planet Jupiter like no spacecraft before it.</p><p>The $1 billion mission has peeled back the giant planet's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-engine-safe-mode-issues-2016-10">thick cloud layers</a>, searched for an elusive core, and returned <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-pictures-nasa-juno-spacecraft-2018-4">dazzling images</a> of colossal <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-pole-storm-pictures-nasa-juno-2018-4">storms</a> and chaotic <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-clouds-storms-pictures-nasa-juno-mission-perijove-13-2018-5">cloud bands</a>.</p><p>But all good things must come to an end, and Juno is no exception.</p><p>NASA planned to destroy the tennis-court-size robot by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-juno-probe-will-crash-into-jupiter-2016-7">plunging it</a> into Jupiter's clouds sometime after July 2018. The rationale is similar to the Cassini probe's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-cassini-probe-destroyed-by-saturn-2017-9">recent demise</a>: Jupiter's icy moon Europa <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-moon-europa-ocean-water-plume-evidence-2018-5">may be habitable to alien life</a>, so carefully and deliberately ending the mission would prevent Juno from accidentally crashing into that moon. This would keep Europa's ocean - which may have <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/earth-water-ice-volume-versus-planets-moons-2016-11">twice as much water</a> as exists on Earth - from getting contaminated by any earthly microbes stuck to Juno.</p><p>However, the probe's fiery end is now pushed back by at least three years to July 2021, according to NASA sources. Scientific work on the mission will continue through September 2022.</p><p>The extension is critical to one of Juno's primary objectives. The probe has been mapping Jupiter as it orbits the gas giant with infrequent close passes called perijoves. Juno builds this map slice-by-slice using a suite of different instruments, including ones that record data about Jupiter's gravitational field.</p><p>But due to lingering engine trouble with Juno, by next month the team will have completed only 14 of the 32 perijoves that it needs to finish mapping Jupiter.</p><h2>Why Juno needs an extension to finish mapping Jupiter</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/sites/default/files/conversations/Juno_Bolton_20170726_Juno_Science_Update.pdf">Scott Bolton/Southwest Research Institute</a></span></p><p class="caption">A diagram of Jupiter's orbits.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Spending too much time in Jupiter's powerful radiation field can <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/voyager-kitchen-aluminum-wrap-radiation-short-circuit-2017-9">damage sensitive electronics</a>. As a result, Juno orbits the planet on a highly elliptical path that keeps the probe mostly out of harm's way, yet regularly zooms it over the cloud tops for detailed observations.</p><p>When Juno arrived in July 2016, mission managers had the spacecraft orbit Jupiter once every 53.5 days. In October 2016, they planned to fire up the probe's engines and speed Juno's orbits to once every 14 days - until the team discovered some sticky engine valves. NASA decided to <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-juno-mission-to-remain-in-current-orbit-at-jupiter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">play it safe</a> and not risk using the engines, delaying Juno's mapping pace nearly four-fold.</p><p>"During a thorough review, we looked at multiple scenarios that would place Juno in a shorter-period orbit, but there was concern that another main engine burn could result in a less-than-desirable orbit," Rick Nybakken, Juno's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a 2017 <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-juno-mission-to-remain-in-current-orbit-at-jupiter">press release</a>. "The bottom line is a burn represented a risk to completion of Juno's <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword> objectives."</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Björn Jónsson</span></p><p class="caption">A map of Jupiter made by merging partial Juno and Cassini spacecraft imaging data.</p></div><p></p></div></div>The Juno mission leaders received a memo authorizing the extension in mid-May, but NASA has not yet publicly announced its decision.</p><p>One representative told Business Insider that the agency hasn't "put anything out yet about that" when asked about the extension.</p><p>"NASA is close to being able to announce a decision on the possibility of continuing the Juno mission at Jupiter," another representative said in an emailed statement. (NASA declined to provide additional information.)</p><p>Extending Juno's flight will help the probe finish mapping Jupiter - a project that primarily focuses on the planet's gravitational field. That data may reveal what is going on deep inside the giant yet mysterious world.</p><p>"It is very exciting for us to be able to complete the mission pretty much as it was originally proposed, except with longer orbits," Frederic Allegrini, a staff scientist at Southwest Research Institute who works on the Juno mission, told Business Insider.</p><p>If Juno stays operational and productive over the next few years, NASA might again decide to keep flying the probe around Jupiter beyond July 2021.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/spacecraft-cemetery-pacific-ocean-dead-satellites-2017-10">There's a place at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean where hundreds of giant spacecraft go to die</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

NASA is giving its $1 billion Jupiter mission a critical new lease on life

<ul class="summary-list"><li>NASA launched Europa Clipper to see if <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oxygen-europa-life-surface-ocean-subsurface-earth-juno-mission-jupiter-2024-3">Jupiter's moon Europa</a> could host alien life.</li><li>Scientists think Europa contains a vast saltwater ocean deep beneath its surface.</li></ul><p><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nasa-could-tell-us-aliens-are-real-2023-2">NASA is serious about searching for alien life</a>, even within our own solar system.</p><p>On Monday, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the agency launched a spacecraft toward Europa, a moon of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jupiter-images-webb-sees-rings-moons-hubble-cant-2022-8">Jupiter</a>.</p><p>Scientists believe Europa contains a vast saltwater ocean deep beneath its icy crust, with twice as much water as Earth. It's perhaps the most promising place in our solar system for active <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-asks-help-retrieving-perseverance-mars-samples-alien-life-2024-4">extraterrestrial life</a>.</p><div type="image" title="Europa" height="1700" width="2300" msid="114225773" hostid="261" sizebytes="181080"></div><p>The NASA mission, called Europa Clipper, aims to figure out whether <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/space-lava-from-moon-volcanoes-creates-jupiters-powerful-aurora-lights-2022-2">the Jupiter moon</a> and its ocean could support life. It's the largest interplanetary spacecraft NASA has ever built. The probe is about 16 feet tall and, when its vast wings of solar arrays are deployed, 100 feet wide. It weighs three-and-a-half tons.</p><p>Clipper is undertaking the first targeted exploration of an <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-underwater-rover-hunt-alien-life-on-ocean-worlds-2019-11">ocean world</a> beyond our planet.</p><p>Even if there is no life on Europa, this mission is crucial in the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-no-contact-with-aliens-2019-9">search for alien life</a>, since ocean worlds across the galaxy are prime candidates for life.</p><p>Missions like Europa Clipper are "modern cathedrals" and "generational quests," said Laurie Leshin, the director of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-mars-helicopter-pilot-what-job-is-like-advice-2023-1">NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a>, which built the spacecraft.</p><div type="image" title="giant spacecraft folded up between red Airbus panels with a large round foil-covered piece on the front with technicians in blue clean suits standing nearby in a giant white clearnroom" height="1280" width="1920" msid="114225774" hostid="261" sizebytes="132976"></div><p>"We scientists have been dreaming about a mission like Europa Clipper for more than 20 years. We've been working to build it for 10 years," she added in a briefing about the mission in September. "It's going to be another 10 years, because <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/video-animation-planetary-scientist-huge-solar-system-2019-11">Jupiter's so far away</a>, until we have all the science in the bag."</p><p>The spacecraft must travel 1.8 billion miles to get to Jupiter, getting a boost from Mars's gravity along the way. It's scheduled to arrive in April 2030.</p><h2 id="ccd765aa-2885-424c-ab06-309d5a9fdb77">A 7-body problem and unfathomable radiation</h2><p>Life exists without sunlight at the bottom of the ocean here on Earth. All it needs is an energy source, like hydrothermal vents which release heat from deep within the planet, and organic molecules containing essential elements like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen.</p><p>Europa Clipper is carrying nine scientific instruments to look for the fingerprints of those molecules, measure the salinity and depth of the underground ocean, and take photos of Europa down to one meter of resolution, among other things.</p><div type="image" title="illustration of a spacecraft with long wings of solar panels above a white moon covered in crisis crossed brown lines with jupiter in the distant background in space" height="1121" width="1995" msid="114225771" hostid="261" sizebytes="107104"></div><p>"Clipper is not actually going to look for life itself, but it's going to characterize the habitability of Europa," Gina DiBraccio, the acting director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, said in the briefing.</p><p>The mission is designed to orbit Jupiter and fly past Europa 49 times, each time soaring over a different area to eventually cover almost the entire moon, pole to pole. The spacecraft will skim as close as 16 miles above Europa's surface.</p><p>The mission plan is a marvel of engineering. Rather than a three-body problem, falling into orbit around Jupiter is a "seven-body problem" because of the planet's large moons, Jordan Evans, the mission's project manager, said in the briefing.</p><p>During each flyby, Clipper will bathe in radiation from Jupiter that's equivalent to "a few million chest X-rays," Evans added.</p><p>It might even find out if Europa's ice really <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-jupiter-oceanic-moon-europa-radioactive-glow-2020-11">glows in the dark from that radiation</a>, as NASA research has previously indicated.</p>

NASA launches a probe to find out if there really could be alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul><li><strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/nasa">NASA</a> scientists looked at 20-year-old data from its Galileo probe, which orbited <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jupiter">Jupiter</a> and its moons in the 1990s.</strong></li><li><strong>They discovered that the robot had flown through water spraying out of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/europa-jupiter-ocean-moon-first-surface-geology-map-2017-10">Europa, an icy moon</a> with a giant hidden ocean.</strong></li><li><strong> A new spacecraft could potentially "taste" the water from Europa that sprays into space and analyze it for signs of habitability - and alien life.</strong></li><li><strong>NASA is building a $2 billion Europa Clipper spacecraft to revisit the world and analyze its water plumes.</strong></li></ul><p><em><br><br /></br></em></p><p>Scientists have reexamined 20-year-old data from a Jupiter spacecraft - and their findings may have considerably improved the chance we'll find alien life in the solar system in the next decade or so.</p><p>The data came from NASA's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-powered-spacecraft-nasa-history-2017-3">nuclear-powered</a> Galileo probe, which the space agency launched in 1989. The robot reached Jupiter in 1995 and orbited the gas giant and its giant moons, returning some of the most detailed and astounding data about the distant worlds.</p><p>In 1997, Galileo zoomed within 130 miles of the surface of Europa, the fourth-largest moon of Jupiter that's now known to have a crust of ice. Galileo's measurements from that flyby suggested Europa was hiding a vast, salty, ocean that may contain&#xa0;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/water-space-volume-planets-moons-2016-10/">more water than exists on Earth</a>. But the probe never directly encountered that liquid - or so scientists thought at the time.</p><p>By reanalyzing old data from Galileo instruments, researchers discovered evidence that the robot had flown through a giant jet or <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/europa-water-jet-hubble-telescope-photos-2016-9">plume of water sprayed from Europa's ocean</a>.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>"If this new interpretation is correct, it seems likely that Europa has frequent plume eruptions, and we may see more plumes in the coming years," <a href="https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Vance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steve Vance</a>, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the study, told Business Insider in an email.</p><p>The authors of the study, which was released Monday<a href="http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0450-z" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> in Nature Astronomy</a>, are hoping two new missions that will fly by Europa - one by the European Space Agency and another by NASA - might "taste" such plumes as they fly through them once again.</p><p>NASA plans to host a "<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-hosts-live-discussion-about-europa-findings-potential-for-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">science chat</a>" about the discovery and its implications at 1 p.m. EDT on Monday. You can watch the event live at the end of this post.</p><h2>The two new missions scheduled to fly past Europa</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>There's a chance Europa might have an ocean that's habitable to alien life beneath its icy crust. Nutrients sprayed onto the ocean's surface by the nearby volcanic moon Io, the thinking goes, may sink, and hydrothermal vents may help create environments that support deep-ocean life (<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-fossils-life-hydrothermal-vents-2017-3">as they did and still do on Earth</a>).</p><p>Researchers have long suspected that Europa sprays plumes of water into space, which would give scientists access to that liquid without having to land a probe on the moon.&#xa0; But the evidence has been hard to come by.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>The best so far came from the Hubble Space Telescope, which watched Europa repeatedly pass in front of Jupiter. Images of Europa's silhouette against Jupiter showed what <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/europa-water-jet-hubble-telescope-photos-2016-9">looked like water plumes</a>.</p><p>However, the authors of the new study say Hubble's measurements "were made at the limit of sensitivity" for the telescope, casting some doubt on their reliability.</p><p>The new discovery is therefore all the more exciting, since it suggests Europa's watery plumes not only exist, but are frequent and common. That's good news for two upcoming, multi-billion-dollar missions to Jupiter and its moons.</p><p>The European Space Agency's spacecraft, called the <a href="http://sci.esa.int/juice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer</a>&#xa0;(JUICE), is scheduled to launch in 2022 and reach Jupiter in 2030. That mission calls for two flybys of Europa from about 200 miles away.</p><p>The other mission is NASA's roughly $2 billion Europa Clipper, which may launch sometime between 2022 and 2025 and arrive about half a decade later.</p><p>The Europa Clipper will make 47 flybys and come within 20 miles of the moon's surface. That could give it access to visuals of plumes and the ability to taste of their water for salts, organic compounds, and other chemicals.</p><p>"The ... instruments are designed with Europa's plumes in mind, allowing us to infer the oceans composition and thus its suitability for life, and even to look for direct chemical signs of extant life," Vance said of the Europa Clipper mission.</p><p>Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the new work, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/europa-water-jet-hubble-telescope-photos-2016-9">previously told</a> Business Insider that oceans on moons like Europa "may be the most common habitats for life that exist in the universe."</p><p>He added: "If there's life at Europa, it'd almost certainly be an independently evolved form of life. Would it use DNA or RNA? Would it use the same chemistry to store and use energy? Discovering extraterrestrial life would revolutionize our understanding of biology."</p><h2>Watch NASA scientists discuss the new Europa study live</h2><p>NASA's media event about the discovery is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. EDT.</p><p>You can watch the event live <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on YouTube</a> using the embedded player below.</p><p>&#xa0;</p><p><em>We'll update this story with additional details from the broadcast. Refresh this page for the latest updates.</em></p><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-hawking-warning-space-aliens-seti-2016-12">Stephen Hawking warned us about contacting aliens, but this astronomer says it's 'too late'</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div></hr>

 NASA flew through a blast of alien ocean water in 1997 - and a $2 billion mission may soon 'taste' it for signs of life 

<p class="p1"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THVFkk-sEus">Warner Bros. / Jupiter Ascending trailer</a></p></div><p></p></div>We've been waiting to hear more about "<keyword id="1790717" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jupiter-Ascending">Jupiter Ascending</keyword>" for a while. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">The space film comes from "The Matrix" directors Andy and Lana Wachowski.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p1"><keyword id="14846" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Warner-Bros-">Warner Bros.</keyword> released the first trailer for the film starring <keyword id="67548" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mila-Kunis">Mila Kunis</keyword> and <keyword id="208361" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Channing-Tatum">Channing Tatum</keyword> last night. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">Here's the plot synopsis for the film.:<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p3" style="padding-left: 30px;">Jupiter Jones (Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along-her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p3">"Jupiter Ascending" comes to theaters July 25, 2014.</p>
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The First Trailer For 'Jupiter Ascending' - The Next Movie From 'The Matrix' Creators

<p>About three weeks before NASA's Juno spacecraft entered its orbit around Jupiter, it began to take images of its approach. NASA compiled these images to create an <a href="https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/media-gallery/jupiter-approach">awesome time-lapse movie of Juno's approach</a>, capturing the captivating motion of the Galilean moons around Jupiter.</p><p><div></div></p><p>The movie begins on June 12, when Juno is some 10 million miles from Jupiter and it ends on June 29 just 3 million miles away. The innermost moon is volcanic Io. The next over is the ice-crusted water world of Europa, which scientists think could possibly harbor life. Then&#xa0;there's&#xa0;Ganymede, the largest&#xa0;of Jupiter's moons. Last, you can see Jupiter's second largest moon, the crater-ridden Callisto.</p><p>"Galileo observed these moons to change position with respect to Jupiter over the course of a few nights," NASA writes. "From this observation, he realized that the moons were orbiting mighty Jupiter, a truth that forever changed humanity's understanding of our place in the cosmos. Earth was not the center of the Universe. For the first time in history, we look upon these moons as they orbit Jupiter and share in Galileo's revelation. This is the motion of nature's harmony."</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nasas-juno-mimssion-answer-important-question-solar-system-2016-7">NASA's historic mission to Jupiter will answer one of the most important questions about our solar system</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="JzMWxrNDE6wfNc6sVfAlmThD1BJcxd9E" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

NASA put together this awesome movie of Juno approaching Jupiter and its moons

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/europa-water-vapor-plume">NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI</a></span></p><p class="caption">A plume of subsurface ocean water vapor escapes through a crack in the icy crust of Europa, a moon of Jupiter.</p></div><p></p></div></div>Jupiter's moon Europa - a giant ice ball thought to hide twice as much liquid water as there is on Earth - just became an even hotter target in the search for aliens.</p><p>Scientists on Monday unveiled new photographs from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and they likely show "fingers" of water vapor squirting out of Europa's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/oceans-on-planets-and-moons-infrographic-2015-9">hidden ocean</a> and into space.</p><p>The grainy Hubble photos, taken in 2014, suggest water plumes occasionally shoot 125 miles into space, then rain back down on the surface.</p><p>If true, this would be Hubble's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/europas-geysers-put-old-faithful-to-shame-2013-12">second time catching Europa's water plumes</a> since 2012.</p><p>Water vents would also make Europa, which is about the size of Earth's moon, an even more irresistible place to look for signs of extraterrestrial life.</p><p>"In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface" and possibly the liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider - all without having to drill through the moon's miles-thick ice shell.</p><p>But secretive water worlds like Europa are not alone; Enceladus around Saturn also sprays out water, and so does Neptune's moon Triton - likely because <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/oceans-on-planets-and-moons-infrographic-2015-9">they all hide giant oceans</a>.</p><p>"A decade or so ago, we had no idea there might be several global oceans within our solar system. Now that's becoming generally accepted," Pappalardo said. "Satellite oceans may be the most common habitats for life that exist in the universe."</p><p>However, Pappalardo - and even the researchers behind the new study - couldn't guarantee the new Hubble images actually reveal water plumes.</p><h2>'I'm not pretty damn sure they are there'</h2><p>Two of the best Hubble photos show why the scientists are hesitant to say what they see are water jets:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Hubble/NASA/STScI/Business Insider</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Those blotchy "dark fingers," circled in red, are the suspected water plumes.</p><p>Why are the photos so grainy and difficult to make out? It boils down to Hubble's capabilities, plus what the telescope took pictures of.</p><p>Hubble was about 400-500 million miles away from Jupiter at the time, and it was taking pictures of Europa's silhouette as it moved across the gas giant's surface:</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>NASA/Hubble/STSci/Business Insider</span></p><p class="caption">Hubble stared at the shadow of Europa moving across the surface of Jupiter to find plumes of water spraying into space.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>A press release provided to Business Insider states this kind of photography is "at the limit of what Hubble can do."</p><p>"Trying to just image Europa with the Hubble Space Telescope clearly from Earth is challenging," Pappalardo said. "Trying to image the [shadow] of a plume, via the light of Jupiter, is a remarkably hard beat. There's essentially a lot of noise in the system."</p><p>NASA press materials about Hubble's probable second discovery of the water plumes (using a totally different method) lean heavily on the word "if," for example (our emphasis added):</p><p>"These plumes, <strong>if they do indeed exist</strong>, may provide another way to sample Europa's subsurface," Geoff Yoder, the associate administrator for NASA's <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">Science</keyword> Mission Directorate, said in the space agency's main release.</p><p>Another "if" regarded the moon's water-enriched atmosphere: "<strong>If there is a thin atmosphere around Europa</strong>, it has the potential to block some of the light of Jupiter, and we could see it as a silhouette," William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. "And so we were looking for absorption features around the limb of Europa as it transited the smooth face of Jupiter."</p><p>When we pressed Pappalardo for his opinion, he also expressed caution.</p><p>"I'm not pretty damn sure they are there. I'm not pretty sure they're <em>not</em> there. Maybe I'm a little more of a skeptic, or need a higher threshold of proof," Pappalardo said. "But it's certainly plausible and reasonable there are plumes there that are active and sporadic."</p><h2>The next mission to Europa</h2><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-europa-mission-begins-with-selection-of-science-instruments">NASA/JPL-Caltech</a></span></p><p class="caption">This artist's rendering shows a concept for a future NASA mission to Europa in which a spacecraft would make multiple close flybys of the icy Jovian moon, thought to contain a global subsurface ocean.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Despite his inherent skepticism about the water plume evidence, Pappalardo says he hopeful they do exist.</p><p>"We know there are [water] plumes out at Neptune's moon Triton, and Enceladus at Saturn," he said. "If they're at Europa, too, they'd be a relatively common thing. It becomes something that icy worlds just do - they vent their interiors out into space."</p><p>NASA's <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/proxima-b-habitable-atmosphere-jwst-2016-9">James Webb Space Telescope</a>, scheduled to launch in 2018, might have the instrumentation to analyze the chemistry of such plumes, if they do exist around Europa.</p><p>Yet Pappalardo said the best way to analyze them is to fly a robot right through the vapor: In particular the $2 billion Europa Clipper mission, also called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-the-space-mission-that-will-get-humans-to-europa-our-best-candidate-for-alien-life-2015-2">the Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission</a>, a project that Pappalardo is a member of.</p><p>By flying a probe through watery plumes, researchers could compare the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and other chemicals in the fluid to "default" levels seen in asteroids - and thus ask if life might exist there.</p><p>"I really don't know the odds, but the discovery of life elsewhere in our solar system would be so significant, we have to find out," Pappalardo said. "If there's life at Europa, it'd almost certainly be an independently evolved form of life. Would it use DNA or RNA? Would it use the same chemistry to store and use energy? Discovering extraterrestrial life would revolutionize our understanding of biology."</p><p>He added: "And at the same time we'd know we're not alone in the universe."</p><p>Should we discover hints of life with next Europa mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022, researchers are ready to up the ante.</p><p>Ultimately, fans of Europa would like to make happen an ambitious scheme to sink a <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/11693/a-submarine-for-europa/">nuclear-powered robot</a> below the ice and directly seek out signs of life.</p><p>It might be more possible than we might expect, too, since a <a href="https://www.caltech.edu/news/probing-mysteries-europa-jupiters-cracked-and-crinkled-moon-48593">growing</a> <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1409">line</a> <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7374/full/nature10608.html">of research</a> increasingly shows Europa is not a cold, dead world: Its surface is likely roiling with giant ice slabs that are cracking, breaking up, sinking, and melting, possibly providing a shortcut into the deep ocean below.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011100/a011176/chaos-1024.jpg">NASA</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-hawking-warning-space-aliens-seti-2016-9">Stephen Hawking warned us about contacting aliens, but this astronomer says it's 'too late'</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="RzeTAyNjE6gtR_2DvSKCIS3S7yEAsIlS" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

Hubble may have caught jets of water squirting out of a potentially habitable moon

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/grand_canyon_nps/9348670050/in/photolist-ff7nUo-bBQmjg-d5vDZJ-hkdBo5-qWZRcs-bB37xS-o3pLM5-b3LEyX-ff7kS3-urR3TU-o3pLtE-8jd9Mv-feS5vP-avJmAB-dm6xDR-8GwvRY-dm6ADj-oTTta9-7MPhE7-9HgWid-6HEY45-ff7gPw-5ijgHc-aTQpLz-nZbBqr-7MPhoN-nZah2m-ogDNY4-aCiH7v-oeBUNY-qhofjw-q116wZ-q116up-oTVk3X-q12Ajz-pkFRMc-caexMu-oBqUE3-oTTsYh-JmoZcC-feS2Qt-nCHdzu-dm6xRZ-pZTJ65-dm6vLV-dm6xfM-nZataS-qhrAAv-6rkaPD-pZTJ5y">Flickr / Grand Canyon National Park</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>Before dawn on Thursday, March 8, stargazers will be able to catch a "planet parade" in the early morning sky.</strong></li><li><strong>Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Pluto will all line up, with the moon between Jupiter and Mars.</strong></li><li><strong>Even if you miss that show, these planets will be visible throughout the month.</strong></li></ul><p>It's a good month to be a stargazer or planet-watcher.</p><p>If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, peek outside before the sun comes up tomorrow. You may catch what many are calling a "planet parade."</p><p>Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Pluto will all be lined up in the pre-dawn sky the morning of March 8, with the moon appearing between Jupiter and Mars in those early hours. You'll need a telescope to see Pluto, but if you've got one, <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/moon-to-align-with-jupiter-mars-and-saturn-before-dawn-thursday/70004337">Accuweather says</a> you should also be able to check out the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. (You might even spot those moons with some nice binoculars.)</p><p>The view of the planet parade should be fairly clear for those in the southern US and in the Rocky Mountains, <a href="https://weather.com/science/space/news/2018-03-06-planet-parade-how-when-watch">according to the Weather Channel</a>. For those in the Northeast, unfortunately, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/thundersnow-storm-national-weather-service-2018-3">thundersnow-bearing winter storm Quinn</a> will almost certainly obscure the view.</p><p>However, you can catch plenty of celestial activity and excellent views of planets all month, <a href="http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury">according to Earthsky</a>.</p><p>Mercury and Venus will both be visible throughout the month in the northern hemisphere, with each planet coming into view shortly after sunset. They've been fairly low in the sky so far, but will be rising higher during the middle of the month.</p><p>Jupiter should be visible and bright throughout March as well. It's been rising in the early-morning hours but should start to become visible in the late evening by the end of the month.</p><p>Around the same time in late March, Mars and Saturn will also be visible and close together, rising about an hour after midnight for those in the northern hemisphere. Mars will continue to get brighter for the next several months as well, Earthsky reports, outshining Jupiter by July 2018.</p><p>You'll have to get up early to catch the planet parade. But if you'd rather stay in bed, remember that there's plenty up there in the sky to check out any time you find yourself outside on a dark night.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-human-breasts-big-2018-2">The science of why human breasts are so big</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

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