Jupiter
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft creates history, successfully enters Jupiter’s orbit
World | Jul 05, 2016, 10:58 AM ISTNASA celebrated a key triumph on Tuesday as its Rs 7,400 crore unnamed Juno spacecraft entered the orbit around Jupiter after a five-year voyage in order to explore the giant planet.
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Astronomers discover Jupiter-like planet that orbits two Suns
World | Jun 14, 2016, 12:02 PM ISTA team of astronomers led by the team from Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland have used data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to identify a huge planet, almost the size of Jupiter, that orbits two Suns simultaneously.
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Huge and powerful: New Jupiter-like planet can ‘spin’ its parent stars, claims research
World | Jun 09, 2016, 08:18 PM ISTNew York: There is an evidence that a massive exoplanet a “hot Jupiter” is circling around its nearest satellite at such a high speed that it’s moving or ‘spinning up’ its nearby star with its
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Saturn and Jupiter started off as tiny pebbles: Study
World | Aug 24, 2015, 09:56 AM ISTWashington: Gas giants such as Saturn and Jupiter may have been built by centimetre-sized pebbles that formed 4.5 billion years ago from dust and ice swirling around the newborn Sun, a new study suggests.Researchers have
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Planet three times as large as Jupiter discovered
World | Aug 20, 2015, 09:18 AM ISTSantiago: Chilean astronomer Maritza Soto has discovered a planet three times as large as Jupiter orbiting a red giant star larger than the Sun and located some 290 million light years from Earth.A doctoral student
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Scientists to hunt for alien life on Jupiter moons
World | Jul 26, 2015, 06:30 PM ISTLondon: After a successful mission to Pluto last week, scientists are preparing to launch a probe to search for life on the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, media reports said.Earlier this week, the European
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NASA mission to look for water on Jupiter's moon Europa
World | Jun 18, 2015, 02:28 PM ISTWashington: NASA has come a step closer to its planned mission to Europa which will try to find out if a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of the Jupiter's moon have the ingredients to
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Nasa to look for alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa
World | Feb 23, 2015, 12:29 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nasa will start a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa in the hope of finding signs of life on the frozen moon.The agency is said to be encouraged by the blasts of water vapour
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NASA solves the mystery of Jupiter's great red spot
World | Nov 12, 2014, 01:01 PM ISTWashington: The ruddy colour of Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is due to the effects of sunlight rather than chemicals from beneath the planet's clouds, a new NASA study has found.According to a new analysis
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Rahul Gandhi propounds escape velocity theory for Dalits
National | Oct 09, 2013, 07:05 AM ISTNew Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday spoke out forcefully for empowering the Dalits, saying the community needs the “escape velocity of Jupiter” to achieve success and attacked BSP leader Mayawati, saying she was
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On Monday, Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth
India | Dec 02, 2012, 07:37 PM ISTNew Delhi, Dec 2 : Jupiter, the largest after the Sun in the solar system, will be at its biggest and brightest on Monday night much to the delight of sky-gazers. The planet, which has
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Jupiter-bound Juno makes key manoeuvre
World | Aug 31, 2012, 01:46 PM ISTPasadena, California, Aug 31: A Jupiter-bound spacecraft successfully fired its engine Thursday in the first of two crucial maneuvers intended to bring it toward Earth for a momentum-gathering fly-by.NASA officials said the Juno spacecraft, which
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NASA Launches Juno Space Probe To Jupiter
World | Aug 06, 2011, 01:49 PM ISTCape Canaveral, Florida, Aug 6: American space agency NASA on Friday morning launched its $ 1.1 billion space probe named Juno to Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system.An Atlas 5 rocket was launched
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Where Next For NASA? Scientists Draw Up Wish List
World | Mar 08, 2011, 10:46 AM ISTLos Angeles, Mar 8: Land a rover on Mars to collect rocks and soil samples that could later be returned to Earth. If that's a budget-buster, then orbit Jupiter's moon Europa, which may have a