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Observations with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed a hidden Jupiter-like planet orbiting the star AF Leporis, 87.5 light - years away. Image: Direct Images Of The Planet Orbiting AF Leporis. – ESO/MESA, DE ROSA ET AL.   Two groups of astronomers led by Dino Mesa (INAF, Italy) and Robert De Rosa (ESO, Chile) studied star catalogs obtained with the Hipparcos and Gaia satellites of the European Space Agency. Over the years , these two space missions have accurately identified the position and motion of the stars in our galaxy with the technique of astrometry. Planets exert a gravitational tug on their host stars, disturbing their path in the sky. The two teams found that the star AF Leporis exhibited an altered trajectory, a telltale sign that a planet might be hidden. As the two groups took a closer look at this system with the VLT, they managed to obtain direct images of the planet orbiting AF Leporis, the ESO repo...

Juno is a NASA space probe that orbits Jupiter. Lockheed Martin built it, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory operates it. As part of the New Frontiers programme, the spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC.   NASA’s $1 billion Juno space craft captured spectacular flyby photographs while Travel ing at more than 130,000 kilometres per hour above Jupiter. You can see these amazing image s below: . . . . Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission.   .   You can see the whole collection here. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/beautiful-new-images-of-jupiter-taken-by-nasa-s-1-billion-juno-spacecraft-have-been-released-TheFOXposts-6542.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Astronomy Post by: TheFOXposts.Com