The crescent moon and Jupiter can be seen alongside prominent stars in the sky over the city of Ohrid in Northern Macedonia on the night of April 29 Light from the city reflects on a placid lake at the bottom of the picture The shot was taken on April 29 as the photographer waited for the "blue hour" to fall Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient lake Ohrid in northern Macedonia on the night of April 29 everything came together - the crescent moon which is actually Europe's oldest lake," continued Spiroski "I love mixing sky elements with landscapes and Ohrid always gives me something beautiful to work with."  —  Night sky for tonight: Visible planets, stars and more in this evening's sky  — Night sky, May 2025: What you can see tonight [maps]  — The brightest planets in May's night sky: How to see them (and when) while the bright star Hassaleh can be found directly above the moon near the top of the image forming a triangle of bright celestial bodies Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! 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Become a part of our Community!  >> Visit Now Look west this evening after sunset to catch a glimpse of bright Jupiter slowly setting between the horns of Taurus the Bull Aldebaran — the Bull’s eye — is getting low center the stately gas giant in your field of view It’s the brightest point of light in Taurus The planet spans 33” and is flanked by its four Galilean moons early in the evening: Callisto far to the west with Europa nearer to the limb while Io sits close to Jupiter to the east and Ganymede is farther out.  But there’s a disappearing act coming up: As time ticks by you’ll see Europa getting closer to the planet slipping behind the northwestern limb in an occultation at 10 P.M the better — Jupiter has already set for those in the Eastern time zone and is very low in the Midwest while it remains respectably high above the turbulent air near the horizon farther west.  Sunrise: 5:55 A.M.Sunset: 7:59 P.M.Moonrise: 1:27 P.M.Moonset: 2:50 A.M.Moon Phase: Waxing gibbous (62%)*Times for sunrise and moonset are given in local time from 40° N 90° W The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 P.M For a look ahead at more upcoming sky events, check out our full Sky This Week column updates and special offers via email from Astronomy.com Astronomy leads the astronomy hobby as the most popular magazine of its kind in the world Count me in Subscribers can access their digital magazine issues and registered users can participate in our Community forums and galleries At Jupiter's north pole powerful storms the size of Australia or bigger are wrapped in 100 mph winds.  After analyzing years of data from NASA's Juno mission scientists have observed the long-term movements of its huge polar cyclone along with the eight others surrounding it.  Meanwhile, on Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active world in the solar system the spacecraft discovered that still-warm lava flows just beneath its crust.  These are some of the new eye-opening observations Juno has made while orbiting the gas giant planet, some 544 million miles away in space presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly meeting in Vienna this week should help scientists better understand how planets and moons cycle heat inside them — something that affects weather The team is also learning about Io's energy. A volcanic eruption discovered during Juno's flyby in late December 2024 — the most energetic in the moon's history — was still spurting lava and ash as of March 2 Scientists think it's likely still going strong today.  One of the big surprises: Despite the moon's cooled crust the data shows Io maintains liquid hot lava just below the ground about 10 percent of the surface has lava underneath it That may have something to do with how Io keeps its surface looking so new.  and subterranean lava flows act like a car radiator," said Shannon Brown "efficiently moving heat from the interior to the surface cooling itself down in the vacuum of space." On one of Juno's recent trips around Jupiter the spacecraft — which has been orbiting the planet since 2016 — used so-called "radio occultation" to send a signal through Jupiter’s thick atmosphere and measure how the waves bent they learned that the air at the north pole is about 20 degrees Fahrenheit colder than the areas around it.  which usually form near the equator and break up as they migrate closer to the poles Jupiter’s storms loiter at the poles in what seems to be a grand display of organized chaos: The cyclones ping off each other and slowly rotate in lockstep around a large central storm Jupiter and system of moons can actually help scientists better understand Earth where researchers can see extreme versions of processes that also happen here Scientists have created computer models that simulate weather and climate based on laws of physics that govern all planets scientists can improve their understanding of weather systems generally and ensure the accuracy of those models.  Juno is expected to swing by Io again on May 6 The spacecraft will pass within 55,000 miles of the moon allowing scientists to know whether that massive eruption indeed continues.  "One of the great things about Juno is its orbit is ever-changing which means we get a new vantage point each time as we perform a science flyby," Bolton said "We’ve built Juno like a tank and are learning more about this intense environment each time we go through it." Jupiter is a planet of extremes – intense winds and magnetic forces that make Earth’s weather look tame and there’s no shortage of cosmic drama in this distant part of the solar system The Juno spacecraft has just sent back new findings that give scientists an even clearer look at what’s happening both deep inside Jupiter and under the crust of Io the mission has uncovered how Jupiter’s cyclones behave and how Io manages to keep erupting with heat from within The research was presented by scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Southwest Research Institute at a recent science conference in Vienna The team shared two important updates: a new map of temperatures beneath the surface of Io, and a better understanding of how storms move across Jupiter’s poles The planet is home to gigantic polar cyclones bigger than Australia the most volcanic body in our solar system and the harshest radiation belts,” said Scott Bolton principal investigator of Juno at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio “As Juno’s orbit takes us to new regions of Jupiter’s complex system we’re getting a closer look at the immensity of energy this gas giant wields.” Juno’s microwave radiometer was originally designed to study Jupiter’s thick cloud cover But scientists decided to turn it toward Io They combined this data with infrared images from another instrument called JIRAM “The Juno science team loves to combine very different datasets from very different instruments and see what we can learn,” said Shannon Brown a Juno scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California “When we incorporated the MWR data with JIRAM’s infrared imagery, we were surprised by what we saw: evidence of still-warm magma that hasn’t yet solidified below Io’s cooled crust. At every latitude and longitude, there were cooling lava flows.” The data shows that about 10% of Io’s surface has pockets of lava just beneath the outer layer That lava is slowly cooling – kind of like how a car radiator works moving heat out from the core and shedding it into space and subterranean lava flows act like a car radiator efficiently moving heat from the interior to the surface cooling itself down in the vacuum of space,” said Brown The scientists confirmed that a massive eruption when Juno passes within 55,300 miles (89,000 kilometers) of the moon Juno is also collecting data using a method called radio occultation scientists send a radio signal from Earth to Juno which then travels back through Jupiter’s atmosphere depending on the temperature and density of the atmospheric layers through which it passes One key result: Jupiter’s north polar stratospheric cap is 11 degrees Celsius cooler than nearby regions And it’s encircled by howling winds that top 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour) Jupiter’s north pole is surrounded by nine giant cyclones – one in the center Unlike hurricanes on Earth that pop up and fade Jupiter’s cyclones are long-lived and stay near the poles Scientists tracked the movement of these storms using images from JunoCam and infrared scans from JIRAM They noticed that each storm drifts slowly toward the pole due to a process called “beta drift.” This drift happens when circular wind patterns interact with the planet’s spin On Earth, storms lose power as they near the poles. But on Jupiter, the polar cyclones bunch together and interact Their speed slows as they start bouncing off each other “These competing forces result in the cyclones ‘bouncing’ off one another in a manner reminiscent of springs in a mechanical system,” said Yohai Kaspi a Juno co-investigator from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel “This interaction not only stabilizes the entire configuration but also causes the cyclones to oscillate around their central positions This new model could help scientists better understand storm movement not just on Jupiter but possibly on Earth and other planets as well Each orbit of Jupiter gives Juno a fresh view As the spacecraft continues to adjust its path it flies through some of the most intense radiation zones in the solar system “One of the great things about Juno is its orbit is ever-changing which means we get a new vantage point each time as we perform a science flyby,” said Bolton that means we’re continuing to go where no spacecraft has gone before including spending more time in the strongest planetary radiation belts in the solar system but we’ve built Juno like a tank and are learning more about this intense environment each time we go through it.” Juno’s mission keeps expanding our view of the solar system’s most powerful planet and its wildest moon the discoveries aren’t likely to stop anytime soon Image Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Jackie Branc (CC BY) Like what you read? Subscribe to our newsletter for engaging articles Check us out on EarthSnap, a free app brought to you by Eric Ralls and Earth.com Create a reading list by clicking the Read Later icon next to the articles you wish to save White-hot volcanoes pockmark Io in this infrared image captured by NASA’s Juno probe Scott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980 right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into space from all over Io’s surface “They looked amazingly beautiful,” said Bolton who is now based at the Southwest Research Institute in Texas I was amazed at how exotic it looked compared to our moon.” Scientists like Bolton have been trying to understand Io’s exuberant volcanism ever since. A leading theory has been that just below the moon’s crust hides a global magma ocean This theory dovetails neatly with several observations including ones showing a roughly uniform distribution of Io’s volcanoes which seem to be tapping the same omnipresent Independent scientists can find no fault with the study. “The results and the work are totally solid and pretty convincing,” said Katherine de Kleer a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology created with images from the Voyager 1 and Galileo missions shows the wide distribution of the moon’s volcanoes The large red ring is sulfurous fallout from the plume of the Pele volcano the rocky foundation upon which everything else from volcanic activity and atmospheric chemistry to biology Heat often comes from a planet’s formation and the decay of its radioactive elements But smaller celestial objects like moons have only tiny reserves of such elements and of residual heat it should — but something appears to grant geologic life to small orbs throughout the solar system long after they should have geologically perished Io is the most flamboyant member of this puzzling club — a burnt-orange crimson and tawny Jackson Pollock painting The discovery of its over-spilling cauldrons of lava is one of the most famous tales in planetary science as they were predicted to exist before they were discovered NASA’s Voyager 1 probe photographed Io in 1979 revealing the first glimpse of volcanism beyond Earth a lava plume is seen emanating from Loki Patera now known to be the moon’s largest volcano On March 2, 1979, a paper in Science ruminated on Io’s strange orbit Because of the positions and orbits of neighboring moons Io’s orbit is elliptical rather than circular it experiences a stronger gravitational pull from the gas giant than when it is farther away The study authors figured that Jupiter’s gravity must therefore be constantly kneading Io pulling its surface up and down by up to 100 meters generating a lot of frictional heat within it — a mechanism they described as “tidal heating.” They conjectured that Io may be the most intensely heated rocky body in the solar system “One might speculate that widespread and recurrent surface volcanism would occur,” they wrote Just three days later, Voyager 1 flew by. An image taken on March 8 documented two gigantic plumes arching above its surface. After ruling out all other causes, NASA scientists concluded that Voyager had seen an alien world’s volcanic eruptions. They reported their discovery in Science that June The planetary science community quickly coalesced around the idea that tidal heating within Io is responsible for the never-ending volcanism on the surface. “The unknown part that’s been an open question of decades is what that means for the interior structure,” said Mike Sori a planetary geophysicist at Purdue University Where is that tidal heating focused within Io and just how much heat and melting is it generating NASA’s Galileo spacecraft studied Jupiter and several of its moons around the turn of the millennium and it picked up a peculiar magnetic field emanating from Io The signal appeared to be coming from an electrically conductive fluid — a lot of fluid A similar magnetic field was coming from Europa, too — in this case, apparently generated by a vast ocean of salty water The implications were profound: With a lot of rocky material it can create oceans of potentially habitable liquid water By the time the Juno spacecraft started swinging around Jupiter in 2016 the belief that Io had a magma ocean was widespread But Bolton and his colleagues wanted to double-check A sequence of images taken over the course of eight minutes by NASA’s New Horizons probe in 2007 shows an eruption by the Tvashtar Paterae volcanic region The plume in this false-color image rises 330 kilometers from the moon’s surface NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute During flybys in December 2023 and February 2024 Juno came within 1,500 kilometers of Io’s scorched surface Although the remarkable images of active volcanoes drew everyone’s attention the goal of these flybys was to find out if a magma ocean truly lay beneath the moon’s rocky skin To investigate, the team used an unlikely tool: Juno’s radio transponder its gravitational field isn’t perfectly symmetrical That uneven gravitational field subtly alters the motion of Juno as it flies by causing it to accelerate or decelerate a little a volcanologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn’t involved with the new study But Bolton’s team did not find this level of distortion. Their conclusion was clear. “There cannot be a shallow magma ocean fueling the volcanoes,” said study co-author Ryan Park a Juno co-investigator at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Cassini-Huygens mission photographed Io against the backdrop of Jupiter in 2001 So what else might be powering Io’s volcanoes discrete reservoirs of magma of different types — from the tarlike viscous matter that powers explosive eruptions to the runnier honey-esque stuff that gushes out of some volcanoes — are located within the crust at various depths all created by the interactions of tectonic plates the moving jigsaw pieces that make up Earth’s surface Io lacks plate tectonics and (perhaps) a diversity of magma types but its crust may nevertheless be peppered with magma reservoirs This was one of the original lines of thought until Galileo’s data convinced many of the magma ocean theory The new study doesn’t rule out a far deeper magma ocean But that abyssal cache would have to be filled with magma so iron-rich and dense (because of its great depth) that it would struggle to migrate to the surface and power Io’s volcanism it becomes tricky to distinguish between what we would call a deep magma ocean versus a liquid core,” Park said For some, this raises an irreconcilable problem. Galileo’s magnetometer detected signs of a shallow magma ocean, but Juno gravity data has emphatically ruled that out. “People are not really disputing the magnetometer results, so you have to make that fit with everything else,” said Jani Radebaugh a planetary geologist at Brigham Young University Researchers disagree on the best interpretation of the Galileo data. The magnetic signals “were taken as probably the best evidence for a magma ocean, but really they weren’t that strong,” said Francis Nimmo a planetary scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz and a co-author of the new study The induction data couldn’t distinguish between a partly molten (but still solid) interior and a fully molten magma ocean Perhaps the main reason scientists study Io is because it teaches us about the fundamentals of tidal heating Io’s tidal heating engine remains impressive — there’s clearly a lot of volcano-feeding magma being generated But if it’s not producing a subsurface magma ocean does that mean tidal heating doesn’t generate water oceans Scientists remain confident that it does. Nobody doubts that Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which is also tidally heated, contains an underground saltwater ocean; the Cassini spacecraft not only detected signs of its existence but directly sampled some of it erupting out of the moon’s South Pole. And although there is some light skepticism about whether Europa has an ocean lightly scratched surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa photographed by the Juno spacecraft in 2022 shows no sign of what lies beneath: in all likelihood Crucially, unlike Io’s odd magnetic field, which seemed to indicate that it concealed an ocean’s worth of fluid, Europa’s own Galileo-era magnetic signal remains robust. “It’s a pretty clean result at Europa,” said Robert Pappalardo the Europa mission’s project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory The icy moon is far enough from Jupiter and the intense plasma-flooded space environment of Io that Europa’s own magnetic induction signal “really sticks out.” “There’s a fundamental difference between a liquid-water ocean and a magma ocean The magma wants to escape; the water really doesn’t.” Liquid rock is less dense than solid rock so it wants to rise and erupt quickly; the new study suggests that it doesn’t linger at depth long enough inside Io to form a massive “I think that’s the big-picture message from this paper,” Sori added Tidal heating might struggle to create magma oceans it can easily make watery oceans due to the bizarrely low density of ice And that suggests life has a multitude of potentially habitable environments throughout the solar system to call home The revelation that Io is missing its shallow magma ocean underscores just how little is known about tidal heating “We’ve never really understood where in Io’s interior the mantle is melting how that mantle melt is getting to the surface,” de Kleer said Our own moon shows evidence of primeval tidal heating, too. Its oldest crystals formed 4.51 billion years ago from the stream of molten matter that got blasted off Earth by a giant impact event But a lot of lunar crystals seem to have formed from a second reservoir of molten rock 4.35 billion years ago Nimmo and co-authors offered one idea in a paper published in Nature in December: Maybe Earth’s moon was like Io The moon was significantly closer to Earth back then and the gravitational fields from the Earth and the sun were battling for control when the gravitational influence of both were roughly equal the moon might have temporarily adopted an elliptical orbit and gotten tidally heated by Earth’s gravitational kneading causing a surprise secondary flourish of volcanism But exactly where within the moon’s interior its tidal heating was concentrated — and thus where all that melting was happening — isn’t clear so too can our moon — as well as several of the other satellites in our solar system with hidden tidal engines this volcanic orb remains maddeningly inscrutable the more sophisticated the data and the analyses Quanta Magazine moderates comments to facilitate an informed incoherent or off-topic comments will be rejected Moderators are staffed during regular business hours (New York time) and can only accept comments written in English We’ll email you instructions to reset your password Donald Trump played three rounds of golf this past weekend and claimed another club championship even with global markets plummeting after announcing his tariffs and playing at his Trump International Golf Club in suburban West Palm Beach He also played in the Senior Club Championship at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter then went to his Doral golf course and resort to host LIV golfers for dinner The Saudi-backed LIV Golf League was playing its first event of the season in the U.S More: Why LIV's new CEO, Scott O'Neil, softened the league's slogan to: Long LIV Golf More: Thousands in Palm Beach County rally against Trump and Musk, furious at tariffs and more Trump flew from Miami to Palm Beach International Airport on Thursday night then played golf Friday at his golf Trump International golf course the closest of his properties to his Mar-a-Lago home Saturday and Sunday were spent on his course in Jupiter During his trip back to Washington on Sunday Trump was asked by reporters how the tournament went because I won," he said aboard Air Force One Trump was then asked to reveal his handicap Not surprising considering this was his eighth golf outing to his courses in Palm Beach County since starting his second term as president less than three months ago Trump now has claimed to have won four championships this year, including teaming with Finnish President Alexander Stubb to win the Men's Member-Guest tournament last weekend at his course near West Palm Beach "I just played a round of Golf with Alexander Stubb He is a very good player and we won the Men’s Member-Guest Golf Tournament at Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach County and former Congressman and highly successful Television Host Last month, while boasting about winning the Club Championship at his course outside of West Palm Beach, the 78-year-old Trump added it would "probably" be his last. Tom D'Angelo is a senior sports columnist and reporter for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at tdangelo@pbpost.com A 67-year-old Jupiter resident turned $5 into $1 million after a trip to the convenience store (CBS12) — A 67-year-old Jupiter resident turned $5 into $1 million after a trip to the convenience store Cintron chose to collect his winnings in a lump sum of $605,016 Cintron bought the lucky 'The Cash Wheel' ticket from Stop N Shop Food near the 300 block of Seabrook Road in Tequesta See also: Two busted in gift card scam at Publix stores across St. Lucie, Martin counties The Florida Lottery says the retailer will receive a $2,000 bonus for selling the winning Scratch-Off ticket The Cash Wheel scratch-off game offers over $62 million in cash prizes Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb A celestial leap is set to take place over two nights as the moon and Jupiter will appear to dance near to each other in the night sky Both celestial bodies will linger in the constellation Taurus Wednesday night, according to Astronomy Magazine. Both outlets suggest that the moon may be illuminated by Earthshine where the sunlight reflected off of the Earth reaches the moon Last week saw multiple space phenomenonThe celestial interlude was preceded last week by a more whimsical astral phenomenon as the moon Venus and Saturn put a smile on the night sky Earthlings were unable to see the other major planetary phenomenon of the previous week as the closest new supermoon of the year occurred on Sunday, April 27. The moon was nearly 17,000 miles closer to Earth than average − according to EarthSky − but it was not visible on Earth JUPITER — Four runs down with six outs to go Coach Joe Giummule said his team was "deflated" after the disastrous half-inning but wasn't ready to give up "We've got a veteran group here that has been in tough games Around the county: St. John Paul II completes comeback for series win over Cardinal Newman Watch high school baseball live on the NFHS Network With Brady Blanks and Jake Finnegan providing the biggest punches, Jupiter rallied for five runs in the bottom of the inning, then held on for a 12-11 victory over Harmony on Saturday in Game 3 of the Region 3-7A semifinal series. The third-seeded Warriors (22-9) will face fourth-seeded Park Vista (24-6) in the best-of-three regional finals beginning Wednesday, May 7. The first two games will be played at Jupiter with a third game, if necessary, at Park Vista. The winner of that series advances to the state tournament in Fort Myers. The sixth inning showed how much of a toll a three-game series can take on a pitching staff. Like the Warriors, the Longhorns (24-8) ran short of pitchers and had to bring in position players who'd seen little time on the mound this season.  Jupiter's Edie Otero led off the bottom of the inning with a walk. One out later, Blanks blasted a home run to left-center, cutting the Warriors' deficit in half.  "I felt that it definitely got a rally started," Blanks said. "But at the same time, the kids after me had to get on base, too, and we still had two more runs to score." Harmony made three pitching changes in the inning but couldn't stop the comeback. After Blanks' homer, Colton Schwarz and Gabe Graulau drew walks and Ryan Senecal was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Finnegan then got a fastball over the plate and drilled it to left field for a two-run double, tying the score.  After stopping at second base, Finnegan waved his arms to pump up his teammates, then ran toward the dugout when time was called. "I was just getting my boys fired up, making sure they knew that the game's ours now," Finnegan said. "(Harmony) broke our heart on this field last year. We've been talking about it all year, how we wanted Harmony again." Andrew Abad followed with a flyout to left and Senecal just beat the throw home to give Jupiter the lead. Graulau, the Warriors' starting center fielder, was brought in to pitch during Harmony's big sixth inning. In the seventh, he hit a batter and allowed a two-out single, putting runners on first and third, but retired Nate O'Neill on a flyout to center to earn the save. "I want nothing to do with Harmony anymore," Giummule said. "That's a really good team. They gave us all we could handle." The Warriors played small ball in building an early lead, scoring four runs on bunts.  Giummule twice called for squeeze plays and Cullen Smith laid down perfect bunts each time, bringing in one run in the second and two in the third. In the fifth, Abad put down a sacrifice bunt and Harmony's pitcher threw wildly to first, allowing Finnegan to come all the way around to score. "The game dictated that," said Giummule, whose team is more known for its power-hitting lineup. "If the game dictates laying down a bunt, we're going to lay down a bunt. If the game dictates a 3-0 green light with your big dog up, we're going to let him swing away." Almost forgotten amid the wild finish was the effort of senior right-hander Jack Wahl-Cox. After missing the first round of the regionals with an illness, Wahl-Cox pitched 4 2/3 solid innings, giving up four runs (two earned) and striking out seven. "We didn't know what we were going to get from Jack," Giummule said. "He's been great for us all year (as the No. 2 starter) — we were just hoping that he'd be healthy enough to go out there. I asked him to give me three or four innings, and he almost gave us five."   By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura I hope the weather is pleasantly springy wherever you’re listening from For Scientific American’s Science Quickly Let’s kick off the month with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed last week First, a crucial report on climate change is under threat. The National Climate Assessment, published by the federal government every few years since 2000 provides the most comprehensive look at how climate change is impacting the U.S It looks at things like sea-level rise and wildfire smoke mitigation as well as analyzes climate change’s impacts on areas including health and state and local governments use the information in the assessment to help navigate the effects of climate change which oversees the creation of the assessment If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today So it’s probably not a bad idea to call up your representatives and ask them to make sure this congressionally mandated report isn’t stymied but it’s also possible some of the entities that rely on the assessment will take legal action to save it Reports indicate that SpaceX aims to have as many as 42,000 satellites in orbit in the future Back in late 2024 more than 100 astronomers signed an open letter asking the U.S Federal Communications Commission to halt the launch of further satellites of this kind which collectively form networks often referred to as mega constellations The scientists called for more investigation into how these mega constellations will impact the environment In addition to creating more and more space debris—which can damage other satellites and even spacecraft like the International Space Station—mega constellations have the potential to interfere with astronomical observations The satellites that make up these networks can also damage the ozone layer and pollute the planet when they fall back down to Earth which happens after a few years of operation After years of observing these cyclones scientists say they’ve seen the storms slowly drift toward the pole—but then bounce off one another when they get close That could help explain why this set of storms is so stable Juno also provided an update on Io’s volcanic activity This Jovian moon is constantly squeezed by the massive planet’s gravitational pull which creates enough friction to melt parts of Io’s interior That means Io has pretty much constant volcanic activity In December Juno spotted a massive new volcanic hotspot in Io’s southern hemisphere. Scientists estimated that the hotspot was nearly a third larger than Lake Superior and was spewing six times as much energy as all of Earth’s power plants combined that eruption was still spitting out ash and lava as of March 2 Scientists hope to observe it again during another close flyby on May 6 We’ll end with a fun story—or maybe kind of a bummer of a debunking You may have seen some news stories last week claiming that lab-grown Tyrannosaurus rex leather could soon be used to craft wallets and purses Those headlines stemmed from a press release issued by VML in partnership with biotech companies Lab-Grown Leather Ltd The press release claims that together these companies will use fossilized T rex collagen to engineer cells with synthetic DNA that mimic those found in dinosaur skin Can you guess where this is going? I bet you can. Two different experts told Live Science that the notion is misleading at best. Thomas Carr, director of the Carthage Institute of Paleontology in Wisconsin, told Live Science that scientists have an incomplete understanding of T rex collagen because all the fossilized evidence we have of its amino acids are fragmented He also pointed out that collagen is a pretty generic molecule across species rex collagen looked like at the cellular level wouldn’t necessarily help you create distinctly T whether you’re reading about mammoth mice if you see someone promising to resurrect a prehistoric creature using the powers of genetic engineering That’s all for this week’s news roundup We’ll be back on Wednesday to explore the benefits of strength training While I’ve got you, I’ve got just a quick favor: We’re running a listener survey to find out what people like about Science Quickly and what we might be able to improve. If you complete it this month, you’ll be entered to win some sweet SciAm swag. Go to ScienceQuickly.com/survey to help us out We’ll also include a link in this episode’s show notes Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck fact-check our show Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith Subscribe to Scientific American for more up-to-date and in-depth science news Rachel Feltman is former executive editor of Popular Science and forever host of the podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week She previously founded the blog Speaking of Science for the Washington Post Fonda Mwangi is a multimedia editor at Scientific American She previously worked as an audio producer at Axios She holds a master’s degree in journalism and public affairs from American University in Washington Alex Sugiura is a Peabody and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer editor and podcast producer based in Brooklyn Subscribe to Scientific American to learn and share the most exciting discoveries innovations and ideas shaping our world today Scientific American is part of Springer Nature which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us) Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers I hope the weather is pleasantly springy wherever you’re listening from Let’s kick off the month with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed last week Rachel Feltman is former executive editor of Popular Science and forever host of the podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week Fonda Mwangi is a multimedia editor at Scientific American Alex Sugiura is a Peabody and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere Imagine a SlusheeTM composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs dubbed “mushballs,” raining down like hailstones during a thunderstorm illuminated by intense flashes of lightning Planetary scientists at the University of California now say that hailstorms of mushballs accompanied by fierce lightning actually exist on Jupiter mushball hailstorms may occur on all gaseous planets in the galaxy including our solar system’s other giant planets The idea of mushballs was initially put forth in 2020 to explain nonuniformities in the distribution of ammonia gas in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere that were detected both by NASA’s Juno mission and by radio telescopes on Earth UC Berkeley graduate student Chris Moeckel and his adviser professor emerita of astronomy and of earth and planetary science thought the theory too elaborate to be real requiring highly specific atmospheric conditions ‘There’s no way in the world this is true,’” said Moeckel last year and is now a researcher at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory “So many things have to come together to actually explain this I basically spent three years trying to prove this wrong And I couldn’t prove it wrong.” The confirmation, reported March 28 in the journal Science Advances, emerged together with the first 3D visualization of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, which Moeckel and de Pater recently created and describe in a paper that is now undergoing peer review and is posted on the preprint server arXiv The 3D picture of Jupiter’s troposphere shows that the majority of the weather systems on Jupiter are shallow reaching only 10 to 20 kilometers below the visible cloud deck or “surface” of the planet swirling patterns in the bands that encircle the planet are shallow redistributing ammonia and water and essentially unmixing what was long thought to be a uniform atmosphere The three types of weather events responsible are hurricane-like vortices hotspots coupled to ammonia-rich plumes that wrap around the planet in a wave-like structure and large storms that generate mushballs and lightning it’s mostly just surface level,” Moeckel said but a few things — vortices and these big storms — can punch through.” “Juno really shows that ammonia is depleted at all latitudes down to about 150 kilometers who discovered 10 years ago that ammonia was depleted down to about 50 km “That’s what Chris is trying to explain with his storm systems going much deeper than we expected.” Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn and ice giants like Neptune and Uranus are a major focus of current space missions and large telescopes in part because they can help us understand the formation history of our solar system and ground truth observations of distant exoplanets Since astronomers can see only the upper atmospheres of faraway exoplanets knowing how to interpret chemical signatures in these observations can help scientists infer details of exoplanet interiors “We’re basically showing that the top of the atmosphere is actually a pretty bad representative of what is inside the planet,” Moeckel said That’s because storms like those that create mushballs unmix the atmosphere so that the chemical composition of the cloud tops does not necessarily reflect the composition deeper in the atmosphere Neptune — certainly to exoplanets as well,” de Pater said The atmosphere on Jupiter is radically different from that on Earth It’s primarily made of hydrogen and helium gas with trace amounts of gaseous molecules which are heavier than the bulk atmosphere Earth’s atmosphere is mainly nitrogen and oxygen And while ammonia gas and water vapor rise At what point do the raindrops stop falling and rain will eventually hit this surface,” Moeckel said “The question is: What happens if you take the surface away How far do the raindrops fall into the planet This is what we have on the giant planets.” That question has piqued the interest of planetary scientists for decades because processes like rain and storms are thought to be the main vertical mixers of planetary atmospheres the simple assumption of a well-mixed atmosphere guided inferences about the interior makeup of gas giant planets like Jupiter much of it conducted by de Pater and colleagues “The turbulent cloud tops would lead you to believe that the atmosphere is well mixed,” said Moeckel invoking the analogy of a boiling pot of water and you would assume that the whole pot is boiling But these findings show that even though the top looks like it’s boiling below is a layer that really is very steady and sluggish.” the majority of water rain and ammonia snow appears to cycle high up in the cold atmosphere and evaporate as it falls even before Juno’s arrival at Jupiter de Pater and her colleagues reported an upper atmosphere lacking in ammonia They were able to explain these observations through dynamic and standard weather modeling which predicted a rainout of ammonia in thunderstorms down to the water layer But radio observations by Juno traced the regions of poor mixing to much greater depths with many areas puzzlingly depleted of ammonia and no known mechanism that could explain the observations This led to proposals that water and ammonia ice must form hailstones that fall out of the atmosphere and remove the ammonia But it was a mystery how hailstones could form that were heavy enough to fall hundreds of kilometers into the atmosphere To explain why ammonia is missing from parts of Jupiter’s atmosphere planetary scientist Tristan Guillot proposed a theory involving violent storms and slushy hailstones called mushballs strong updrafts during storms can lift tiny ice particles high above the clouds — more than 60 kilometers up which acts like antifreeze and melts the ice into a slushy liquid As the particles continue to rise and fall they grow larger — like hailstones on Earth — eventually becoming mushballs the size of softballs These mushballs can trap large amounts of water and ammonia with a 3 to 1 ratio they fall deep into the atmosphere — well below where the storm started — carrying the ammonia with them This helps explain why ammonia appears to be missing from the upper atmosphere: it’s being dragged down and hidden deep inside the planet where it leaves faint signatures to be observed with radio telescopes the process depends on a number of specific conditions The storms need to have very strong updrafts and the slushy particles must quickly mix with ammonia and grow large enough to survive the fall “The mushball journey essentially starts about 50 to 60 kilometers below the cloud deck as water droplets The water droplets get rapidly lofted all the way to the top of the cloud deck where they freeze out and then fall over a hundred kilometers into the planet where they start to evaporate and deposit material down there,” Moeckel said this weird system that gets triggered far below the cloud deck goes all the way to the top of the atmosphere and then sinks deep into the planet.” Unique signatures in the Juno radio data for one storm cloud convinced him and his colleagues that this is “There was a small spot under the cloud that either looked like cooling melting and release of ammonia,” Moeckel said “It was the fact that either explanation was only possible with mushballs that eventually convinced me.” The radio signature could not have been caused by water raindrops or ammonia snow an expert in cloud dynamics on giant planets and a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena against my best desire to find a simpler answer,” Moeckel said Scientists around the world observe Jupiter regularly with ground-based telescopes timed to coincide with Juno’s closest approach to the planet every six weeks In February 2017 and April 2019 — the periods covered by the two papers — the researchers used data from both the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico to complement Juno observations in an attempt to create a 3D picture of the troposphere provided measurements of reflected light off the cloud tops probed tens of kilometers below the clouds to provide global context Juno’s Microwave Radiometer explored the deep atmosphere of Jupiter over a limited region of the atmosphere “I essentially developed a tomography method that takes the radio observations and turns them into a three-dimensional rendering of that part of the atmosphere that is seen by Juno,” Moeckel said The 3D picture of that one swath of Jupiter confirmed that most of the weather is happening in the upper 10 kilometers “The water condensation layer plays a crucial role in controlling the dynamics and the weather on Jupiter,” Moeckel said “Only the most powerful storms and waves can break through that layer Moeckel noted that his analysis of Jupiter’s atmosphere was delayed by the lack of publicly available calibrated data products from the Juno mission he was forced to independently reconstruct the mission team’s data processing methods — tools could have significantly accelerated independent research and broadened scientific participation He has since made these resources publicly available to support future research efforts The work was funded in part by a Solar System Observations (SSO) award from NASA (80NSSC18K1003) This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Jupiter and Mars are on display during May evenings It’s your last chance to grab a good view of Jupiter before it drops out of sight for midsummer A gathering of planets in the morning sky offers some nice opportunities and in the first week of May they’re joined by meteors from the annual Eta Aquariid shower.  continuing its long goodbye as its elongation from the Sun diminishes from 40° to 18° local daylight time on May 1st and around 9:30 p.m. Your finest views occur in the first few days of the month when the planet spans 34″ and remains above 20° altitude an hour after sunset.  Jupiter shines at magnitude –2.0 in early May and lies in Taurus the Bull It appears in the western sky along with Orion with the faint Crab nebula (M1) 1.3° southwest of the planet although twilight will render the nebula invisible Jupiter is magnificent when viewed through a telescope in twilight This is because the glare of the planet is diminished Delicate atmospheric details — such as the dark equatorial belts and more temperate-latitude dark belts The apparent diameter of Jupiter shrinks to 32″ by the end of the month the planet falls below 20° an hour after sunset and becomes more difficult to observe particularly if you have obstructions to the west The narrowing observing window nonetheless provides some interesting events involving the Galilean moons Io performs a transit with its shadow on May 4 Io reaches Jupiter’s eastern limb at 9:06 p.m the transit is already underway in twilight watch Europa disappear behind the western limb of Jupiter at 10 p.m This event is best viewed in the western U.S — Jupiter is getting very low (less than 10° high) for Midwest observers and has already set for those along the Eastern Seaboard The orbital plane of the Galilean moons is tilted such that Callisto misses any occultations or transits but this month Callisto slides very close to the northern pole of Jupiter Watch this unusual event on the evening of May 11 where the edge of Callisto is predicted to graze the northern edge of Jupiter Watch all evening as the fascinating encounter plays out MDT (Jupiter is now very low in the Central time zone) just minutes before Ganymede reappears off the planet’s northeastern limb from within Jupiter’s shadow Europa performs a nice transit followed by its shadow on May 14 The shadow appears as Europa reaches the central meridian of Jupiter The western half of the country sees Europa exit the disk at 8:52 p.m while its shadow is near the middle of the disk Galilean satellite events in late May become difficult to observe as Jupiter dips below most observers’ tree line in the late evening Mars provides a lovely addition to Cancer the Crab as May opens and the scene is best viewed in binoculars Our satellite passes within 2° of the planet which is now skirting the outer limits of M44 Mars is 40′ due north of the center of the Beehive a stunning pairing in binoculars or low-power telescope eyepiece Mars continues across eastern Cancer and moves into Leo on the 25th making it very small; it is difficult to view surface features with a telescope with the appearance of Venus and Saturn climbing high in the predawn sky Venus is obvious and shines at magnitude –4.7 It’s located south of the Great Square of Pegasus a planetary pairing that provides interesting contrast when each is viewed through a telescope Both planets are above the horizon by 5 a.m Saturn shines at magnitude 1.2 and its rings are close to edge-on Venus exhibits a 30-percent-lit crescent spanning 36″ when both Venus and Saturn lie about 3° from the more distant world Neptune stands 1.6° northeast of Saturn and can be spotted with a pair of binoculars Viewing Saturn’s rings is difficult with the low altitude and approaching twilight but it’s worth a try in the first few days of May because we are glimpsing the backlit side of the rings you might see the gossamer-thin black line of the rings’ shadow on Saturn’s 16″-wide disk.  After May 6 — the date of Saturn’s equinox when the Sun is exactly edge-on to the rings — the shadow essentially disappears becomes sunlit for the first time in more than 15 years Observing these fascinating changes in the rings is challenging but it’s worth the effort if you have a large telescope and clear eastern horizon Saturn continues to climb higher in the morning sky and meets with a waning crescent Moon on May 22 local daylight time and stands 15° high in the eastern sky at the onset of morning twilight Venus extends its elongation from the Sun during the month and is carried eastward against the background stars of Pisces A waning crescent Moon stands within 7° of Venus on the 23rd A telescope reveals the disk of Venus diminishing to 24″ during the month its phase grows to 49 percent lit by the last day of the month when it reaches greatest elongation from the Sun Venus is best observed in twilight to avoid the dazzling brilliance of the planet when viewed in darkness Mercury appears very low in the eastern morning sky in early May It rises 50 minutes before the Sun on May 1 and only 40 minutes ahead of the Sun by May 12 when the planet has brightened to magnitude –0.5 Its southerly declination makes it a tougher target for Northern Hemisphere observers whereas those in the Southern Hemisphere have a great view.  If you can catch this elusive planet in a telescope you’ll spot a gibbous disk growing from 60 percent lit on the 1st to 77 percent lit on the 12th Mercury quickly dips out of view after the second week of May Orbiting on the other side of the solar system from Earth Mercury reaches superior conjunction with the Sun on May 29 Uranus is out of view and is in conjunction with the Sun May 17 The Moon’s frozen face records the scars of its dual past life The prominent impact crater Copernicus is the gateway to this short lunar trip When it lies on the line separating light from dark its high walls stand out above the surrounding plain Sunrise over this beautifully complex region occurs on the 6th The lit side of Copernicus has a textured surface that looks like the aftermath of a small rock landing in a mud puddle: Apart from a draping of splattered material numerous secondary pits formed when blast remnants fell shortly after the main impact By the 7th, the Sun illuminates the western side where a bunch of jumbled peaks stick out above the lava-flooded surface. Along the terminator that has shifted to the lunar west is the smaller crater Hortensius Look closely to the north to see a cluster of six volcanic domes but only with a very low Sun angle are these domes noticeable These light-dark doublets are much softer than the harsher lighting from crater rim to floor Charles Wood writes that these domes are about 4 miles wide and 1,000 feet or so high a 6- to 10-inch scope might reveal a summit pit Wood notes that despite advances in lunar geology we don’t know whether they were formed by uplift from below or gradually built up by a longer-term quiet eruption.  Find another large dome just west of Milichius You could literally spend hours watching the fantastic play of light and dark in the area of Copernicus Remember also to look for Mare Orientale at and just after Full Moon (See last month’s column for more details.) The warmth of a spring evening is welcome across the Northern Hemisphere you might capture a fleeting view of dust particles ejected from Halley’s Comet on its many orbits around the Sun They are visible as swift meteors from the annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower one of two associated with Halley’s orbit (the other is the October Orionids) The shower is active from April 19 to May 28 just before the gibbous Moon sets in the west The radiant reaches an altitude of 20° two hours later just as the first signs of twilight appear This low altitude attenuates the zenithal hourly rate of 50 meteors per hour down to an expected observable rate of 10 per hour These swift meteors travel at roughly 40 miles per second making it worth spending a couple of hours to see perhaps a dozen good meteors and M105 in the belly of Leo are targets in the Messier marathon now turn to the nearby quirky Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann Astronomers can’t predict when it will pop up to 11th magnitude You will need an 8-inch scope well away from city lights Before the information even travels down the optic nerve your retina bins neighboring cells that “agree” to increase the signal to noise Note which magnification best shows its magnitude 11.8 companion ease to the lower right to magnitude 3.5 Omicron (ο) Leonis Use our chart to home in on Schwassmann-Wachmann’s location dark adapt a bit more and tap the tube to activate the motion sensitivity of your averted vision You’ve got it when the ghost shows up again in the same spot you can spy a main-belt asteroid through binoculars with just a couple of minutes of dark adaptation Point to a spot halfway between brilliant orange Arcturus and blue-white Spica It’s even easier to get to than the directions sound Overshoot to hit the lovely wide double star Zubenelgenubi Evening observers can tilt the finder chart to the left to match the orientation in the sky Lock in on the gently curving chain of equally spaced stars as you sweep field to field The only “star” anywhere near the upper two Vesta is at peak brightness of magnitude 5.7 on the 2nd When the Moon reaches its opposition — Full phase — it passes so far below that you should be able to follow Vesta the entire month pick it out during a break from telescopic viewing when it is higher in the sky The map below portrays the sky as seen near 35° north latitude Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points hold the map overhead and orient it so one of the labels matches the direction you’re facing The stars above the map’s horizon now match what’s in the sky The all-sky map shows how the sky looks at: Simply look to the western sky after sunset In the coming days the moon will form a waxing crescent which will grow steadily larger in the run-up to its first quarter phase It may be possible at this time to see the shadowed regions of the lunar surface softly lit by sunlight bouncing off Earth's surface onto the (relatively) nearby moon. This phenomenon, known as Earthshine is capable of revealing the presence of dark features on the lunar surface known as mare which formed billions of years ago when oceans of lava flows on the still cooling moon solidified to form vast basins of basaltic rock The crescent moon is sure to make for a lovely when it will be visible for just a few hours in the post sunset sky before slipping below the horizon at around 10:30 pm EDT for skywatchers in New York While this will occur while the sun is still very much in the sky for viewers in America the duo will still make for a magnificent view in the post sunset sky The bright magnitude 1.61 star Elnath - which forms one of the two horns in the constellation Taurus - will serve as a perfect bonus viewing target for the night of April 30 when it will be separated by less than a degree from the moon's shadowed surface The moon will set progressively later in the runup to its first quarter phase while Jupiter will set around three minutes earlier each night throughout May Astrophotographer captures the moon and Jupiter suspended above one of Europe's oldest lakes (photo) 10 must-have 'Star Wars' books and novels coming soon to your galaxy Former major league catcher and Hall of Fame announcer Joe Garagiola once said “There’s No Defense Against the Base on Balls.”  Harmony learned that lesson the hard way Thursday afternoon issuing 12 walks and hitting two batters in a 13-9 loss to Jupiter in a Class 7A combined with Harmony’s 13-4 win a day earlier sets up a decisive Game 3 on Saturday night in Jupiter The winner advances to a Best-of-Three Region 3 Final beginning on Wednesday night Although Jupiter collected nine hits – including five of the extra base-hit variety – it was the inability of the Longhorn pitchers to throw strikes that directly led to the loss nine of Jupiter’s 13 runs reached base via walk or hit by pitch “It was a combination of a couple of things The strike zone was tight and maybe a little inconsistent but that’s pretty normal in high school baseball,” Harmony coach Heath Williams said “You can’t use that as an excuse and you have to adjust to how the game is being called   But the bigger issue was the fact that we knew Jupiter is a very good hitting team and out ball park is on the smaller side I really believe we are just trying to be too fine with our pitches.” Jupiter would jump on top early as Griffin Miller and Brady Banks slammed solo home runs to give the Warriors a 2-0 lead heading into the bottom of the third which came into the game riding an 11-game winning streak – including five victories in come-from-behind fashion – appeared poised to make it six The Longhorns would send 10 men to the plate in the third — and spurred on by back-to-back two run doubles from Angel Medina and Jose Scrofani — took a 5-2 lead Harmony could have done more damage in the inning had it not been for two sensational plays from third baseman Jake Finnigan that squashed the rally The next two innings would turn into a nightmare for the Longhorns three walks and a lone single in the fourth plated four runs for Jupiter as they forged back in front 6-5 Harmony relievers Alexavier Lebron walked the first two batters he faced in the fifth freshman reliever Riley Bionini then loaded the bases with a walk before Miller slammed his second home run of the game –this one a grand slam—as the Warriors took a 10-5 lead Jupiter would tack on two more in the inning and add an RBI double by Banks to push the lead to eight Harmony sent eight to the plate and scored four times in the sixth to cut the deficit to 13-9 A two-run double by Scrofani and a run scoring double by Clayton Williams keyed the inning But after issuing a leadoff walk in the bottom of the seventh Jupiter reliever Colton Schwartz got a strikeout and two pop-outs to end the game Miller slugged two home runs and had five RBI and Banks had a home run and three RBI for Jupiter Scrofani had two hits and four RBI and Jadiel Perez had two hits and score twice for Harmony Despite seeing his team’s 11-game winning streak end and having to travel to Jupiter for Game 3 “This team had fought and clawed its way all season and we will do the same on Saturday,” he said I like the way our pitching sets up in Game 3 Jupiter           101    461    0  —  13 WP—Braedon Hawkins (J); LP—Lebron (H),; Save: Schwartz (J) Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes Welcome to Jupiter Jupiter's secrets are being revealed like never before New data from the orbiter has unveiled some of the treacherous conditions of not only Jupiter, but its moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system which come after Juno has flown close to the planet to peer under its cloud covered atmosphere shed light on Jupiter's fierce winds and violent cyclones the innermost and third-largest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons Juno's observations have provided more insights about its incessant volcanic activity Here's everything to know about NASA's latest findings, announced Tuesday, April 29 More about Io: Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet NASA's Juno spacecraft launched in August 2011 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida’s Atlantic coast Since it arrived in 2016 at Jupiter's orbit which looks something like  a three-bladed cosmic fan has been probing beneath the gas giant's dense clouds seeking answers about the origin and evolution of the gas giant flying over the same part of the moon each time Though Io is not much larger than Earth's own moon the two celestial bodies couldn't be more different Io is considered to be the most volcanically active world in our solar system eruptions on the Jovian moon have attracted scientific interest because they are thought to be caused by very different factors which was first discovered by the ancient astronomer Galileo in 1610 is named for a mythological woman transformed into a cow during a marital dispute Because Io is so close to its massive host planet, the moon is subjected to a tremendous gravitational pull as it orbits Jupiter once about every 42 hours, according to the Planetary Society weakening the planet's gravitational influence The constant stretching and squeezing creates tidal forces that generate heat within the moon keeping its subsurface crust in liquid magma form that seeks any available escape route to relieve the pressure the hectic conditions are perfect for Io's approximately 400 active volcanoes to endlessly spew lava dozens of miles into the air exceeding temperatures of 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit NASA's Juno mission gets look under surface of Jupiter IoYears of data from NASA's Juno mission has provided scientists with a trove of information about the conditions of both Jupiter and Io the findings helped Juno team members track the movements of Jupiter's massive northern polar cyclone The data resulted in helping the team develop a new model to study the fast-moving jet stream that encircles Jupiter’s north pole where the cyclones rage “Everything about Jupiter is extreme," Scott Bolton The volcanic activity spotted on a planet famed for such eruptions was not only larger than Earth’s Lake Superior but was observed belching out eruptions six times the total energy of all the world’s power plants combined Juno mission scientists expect more observations May 6 when the solar-powered spacecraft flies by the moon again at a distance of about 55,300 miles The team members presented their findings April 29 during a news briefing in Vienna during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly Eric Lagatta is the Space Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network Another Fox News personality is headed to the Sunshine State, and possibly Palm Beach County, where he is linked to a property in Jupiter Inlet Colony Longtime co-host Steve Doocy announced this week he is stepping away from the “Fox & Friends” morning show and relocating to Florida full time The 68-year-old was clear he’s not retiring but after decades of waking up at 3:30 a.m to drive into New York City from New Jersey Fox News Media's executive vice president of morning programming and program development Doocy will be traveling cities across the country where he will co-host from "diners to pickleball courts and more." but it’s time for a change," Doocy said May 1 on “Fox & Friends.” Where is Jupiter Inlet Colony?Doocy and his wife bought a home in the tony beachside community of Jupiter Inlet Colony in 2014 for $1.01 million The nearly 2,600-square-foot home with four bedrooms and a pool was quitclaim-deeded to a land trust in 2020 for $10 but it remains homesteaded in Doocy’s wife's name according to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser having a homestead exemption on a home means you consider it your primary residence A quitclaim deed is often used for nonsale transactions such as adding a spouse on a title or transferring property within the family or to a trust Jupiter Inlet Colony is about 17 miles north of West Palm Beach It was incorporated in 1959 and had a population of 425 in 2023 Both Hannity and Baier have homes in Palm Beach Baier hosts Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier" and is the network's chief political anchor bought their home in 6,700-square-foot home in 2023 for $37 million who hosts "The Sean Hannity Show," owns an oceanfront townhome in Palm Beach and is believed to have used an ownership company in 2024 to buy an ocean-to-lake estate in Manalapan for $23.5 million Doocy’s move to Florida will put him closer to President Donald Trump’s residence and private club Mar-a-Lago. High-profile Trump fan Kid Rock also owns a home in Jupiter Inlet Colony “I’ll be going from the Carolinas to the Keys Call me the coast-to-coast host," Doocy said “You may never see me in a necktie again.” The home in Jupiter Inlet Colony was built in 1981 and is a ranch-style cinderblock house with a two-car garage — modest compared to the homes of Baier and Hannity but is sandwiched between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean The online real estate brokerage Redfin estimates its current sales value at $2.86 million 2025 from a distance of 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) A JIRAM infrared image of the cyclone at Jupiter’s north pole and the eight cyclones that bustle around it A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant's volcanic moon and into the world of cyclones playing bumper cars at the north Jovian pole Juno arrived at the Jupiter system in 2016 but a failed thruster meant that it is now stuck in a wide polar orbit that brings it close to Jupiter and its moons every 53 days Juno has amassed a bevy of high-quality data about Jupiter's atmosphere which had not previously been studied in detail Juno has been tracking the motion of this system of cyclones in visible and infrared light (in the guise of heat coming from deeper within the atmosphere) since 2016 using its JunoCam and Jovian Infrared Aurora Mapper (JIRAM) These two instruments have shown that each of the eight cyclones drift towards the pole via a process called "beta drift." The same process occurs to cyclones on Earth and is the result of the Coriolis force interacting with the whirling wind pattern belonging to each cyclone cyclones never get anywhere near the poles That's because the closer they get to cold Jupiter's cyclones start bumping into each other "This interaction not only stabilizes the entire configuration Meanwhile, away from Jupiter's atmosphere, Juno has recently been making recurring fly-bys of the innermost Jovian moon, Io — the most volcanic body in the solar system During Juno's flyby of Io on Dec. 27, 2024, the spacecraft spotted what has turned out to be the most energetic volcanic eruption ever recorded on Io and it is expected to still be active during Juno's next flyby which takes place on May 6 at a distance of 55,300 miles (89,000 kilometers) from the surface of Io But it's what lies below the surface of Io that has got Juno's science team excited By combining the spacecraft's Microwave Radiometer (MWR) with JIRAM scientists were able to measure the underground temperature on Io revealing the presence of subterranean magma flows "The Juno science team loves to combine very different datasets from very different instruments and see what we can learn," said Shannon Brown of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory "When we incorporated the MWR data with JIRAM's infrared imagery we were surprised by what we saw: evidence of still-warm magma that hasn’t yet solidified below Io's cooling crust — NASA's Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter's moon Io —  NASA's Juno probe sees active volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io (images)  — NASA's Juno probe spots massive new volcano on Jupiter moon Io Juno has previously ruled out the existence of a large magma ocean beneath Io's surface that could feed the volcanoes rising flows could explain how Io's volcanoes erupt The science team calculates that about 10% of the moon's subsurface has these cooling flows which tells us more about how heat is transported from Io's hot interior to its surface allowing the world to frequently resurface itself through lava flows spilling out above ground lava fields and subterranean lava flows act like a car radiator cooling itself down in the vacuum of space," said Brown The latest Juno results were presented on April 29 at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna and has a degree in physics and astrophysics from the University of Manchester He's the author of "The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (Bloomsbury Sigma 2020) and has written articles on astronomy physics and astrobiology for a multitude of magazines and websites Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball' US House space committee wants a standard lunar clock Exoplanets classified as super-Earths are commonly observed on short period orbits but their abundance on wider orbits is poorly constrained Gravitational microlensing is sensitive to exoplanets on wide orbits We observed the microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-0007 which indicates an exoplanet with a planet-to-star mass ratio roughly double the Earth-Sun mass-ratio We combine this event with a larger sample from a microlensing survey to determine the distribution of mass ratios for planets on wide orbits We infer there are ∼0.35 super-Earth planets per star on Jupiter-like orbits The observations are most consistent with a bimodal distribution with separate peaks for super-Earths and gas giants We suggest that this reflects differences in their formation processes ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager/space biologist Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran the Gemini twins and the Beehive star clusterIt's going to be quite a week for the Moon the Gemini twins and the Beehive star cluster The Moon is in for another interesting few nights as it will appear to hop along the sky meeting Mars and Jupiter bright springtime stars and a beautiful star cluster known as the Beehive This clear weather we're having at the beginning of May should hopefully mean clear skies for stargazing and we're in for a treat as the Moon will be close to some of the best objects to see in the sky Here we'll reveal some of the highlights of the week and how you can see them easily with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars For weekly stargazing advice, sign up to our e-newsletter and subscribe to our YouTube channel Jupiter will be visible just below and to the left of the Moon You can see the Moon and Jupiter in the western sky around 21:00 BST (20:00 UT) then follow them both as they head towards the northwestern horizon You might also notice a star very close to the Moon, just above and to the right of it. That's Elnath, the 2nd brightest star in the constellation Taurus but you can still see the Moon and Jupiter sharing the same region of the western sky around 21:00 BST (20:00 UT) In fact, the Moon and Jupiter will be forming a neat triangle with Capella one of the brightest stars in the night sky Capella is located in the constellation Auriga and is actually not one The region around Capella is filled with stars so it's well worth exploring with a telescope On 2 May, the Moon forms another triangle, but this time with Castor and Pollux, the twin stars of Gemini Catch the three in the western sky around 21:30 BST (20:30 UT) You may also notice that, since the Moon tracks eastward night after night, it's now getting closer and closer to the planet Mars, which is currently in the constellation Cancer Mars meets the Beehive Cluster in early May 2025, and if you swing a pair of binoculars over to Mars on 2 May, you'll see that it is indeed sitting very close to the Beehive Mars is high in the southwest around 21:00 BST (20:00 UT) As the Moon continues to track eastwards each night it will get closer to Mars and the Beehive and on 3 May the Moon is right in the thick of it forming a beautiful alignment with the Beehive Cluster and Mars If you're able to capture a photograph of this alignment – or 'massing' as it's sometimes called – it will look absolutely beautiful By 4 May, the Moon is now further to the left of Mars, forming an almost-straight line with Mars and star Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo Get a good look at Regulus on the evening of 4 May because on 5 May there will be something of a rare opportunity and that's the chance to easily locate and observe a distant star during daytime if you look to the southeast around 19:00 BST (18:00 UT) the Moon being great marker for locating the star on this date If you grab a pair of binoculars you should be able to make out Regulus and You've just seen a star (other than our Sun) during daytime if you are observing the sky with binoculars during daytime If you don't manage to spot Regulus during daytime If you observe or photograph any of the events listed above, get in touch by emailing contactus@skyatnightmagazine.com Football legend Nick Saban went back to the University of Alabama on May 1 to speak to the graduating class of 2025 at a special pre-graduation event Saban bought a Jupiter Island mansion in Martin County in April 2023 before announcing his retirement as the former Crimson Tide head football coach in 2024 he led the UA football team for 17 seasons and won six national championships Here's what to know about Saban and his Jupiter Island mansion Who lives here?: Actors, singers, athletes and more celebrities with Treasure Coast ties Real estate: Prices fell in Martin, Indian River counties as inventory increased in March  Saban purchased a six-bedroom, $17.5 million oceanfront estate on Jupiter Island that sits on 1.68 acres Jupiter Island is a barrier island on the Treasure Coast that is home to some of the world's biggest stars in music Saban is also an avid golfer and is in good company with his Jupiter Island neighbors and golf legends Tiger Woods and Gary Player It was looking like Saban might spend much of his retirement golfing, but he has become a staple on ESPN's "College GameDay." Gianna Montesano is TCPalm’s trending reporter. You can contact her at gianna.montesano@tcpalm.com, 772-409-1429, or follow her on Twitter @gonthescene the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes during the spacecraft's 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan Jupiter's belts and zones stand out in this enhanced color rendition along with the turbulence along their edges caused by winds going in different directions The original JunoCam image used to produce this view was taken from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops Citizen scientist Jackie Branc processed the image JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing. More information about NASA citizen science can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science More information about Juno is at https://science.nasa.gov/mission/juno/ and https://missionjuno.swri.edu Juno's JIRAM Captures Hots Spots on Io Three Views of Io's Southern Hemisphere NASA's Juno Mission Captures Close-Ups of Polar Storms on Jupiter NASA's Juno Captures Lava Channel Thermal Emissions at Zal Patera NASA's Juno Captures Thermal Emissions at Zal Montes Surface Changes at Nusku Captured by NASA's Juno NASA's Juno Sees New Flows at Zal Montes Related TopicsQUIZZES. News. NASA’s Juno Mission Gets Under Jupiter’s and Io’s Surface News. NASA Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover Making Tracks to Next Science Stop News. NASA’s EZIE Mission Captures ‘First Light’ News. NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Studies Trove of Rocks on Crater Rim News. NASA’s Juno Back to Normal Operations After Entering Safe Mode Mission. News. 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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars FORT MYERS – The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels were defeated by the Jupiter Hammerheads 5-1 in the series finale of a three-game set on Thursday night at Hammond Stadium Adrian Bohorquez (0-1) made the start for Fort Myers (13-11) The right-hander allowed two runs on a pair of hits plating a pair of runs on a double from right fielder Jacob Jenkins-Cowart to take a 2-0 lead in the top of the third inning Cole Peschl came on in relief of Bohorquez striking out eight Hammerhead batters across 3.1 scoreless innings The 15th round pick in 2024 out of Campbell University now has 27 strikeouts in his first 17.1 professional innings With Jupiter still leading 2-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning Jay Thomason led off the frame with a single Thomason then moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt by Jose Salas sent a 1-2 pitch back through the middle and into center field to score Thomason and cut the deficit to 2-1 Devin Kirby entered the game in the seventh while striking out the last two batters of the inning Kirby ran into trouble in the eighth though as Jupiter got two runs off the bat of third baseman Jesus Hernandez His two-run triple gave the Hammerheads a 4-1 advantage centerfielder Andrew Salas’ RBI single scored Hernandez Kade Bragg was next out of the Mussel bullpen After issuing a walk to the first batter he faced Bragg struck out the next three Hammerhead batters to escape the jam Bragg finished the night with four strikeouts in 1.1 innings The Mussels are back in action today for the start of a three game series against the Tampa Tarpons Due to the Tampa Bay Rays using Steinbrenner Field Tarpons home games are being held on Yankees Complex Field 2 There will not be any video or audio coverage of the three game series 6.10) will start the series opener for the Mussels Copyright © Cape Coral Breeze | Contact | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy NASA’s Juno mission has unveiled new insights into Jupiter’s fierce winds, cyclones, and volcanic activity on its moon The findings at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly on April 29 provide a deeper understanding of the gas giant’s atmospheric dynamics and Io’s fiery surface Juno’s latest data has helped scientists refine a new model explaining the fast-moving jet stream that encircles Jupiter’s north pole where massive cyclones swirl in a chaotic dance interacting like springs in a mechanical system This beta drift effect causes them to oscillate and drift westward Radio occultation experiments have revealed that Jupiter’s north polar stratospheric cap is 11°C cooler than surrounding regions Juno’s microwave radiometer (MWR) and Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) have provided Io’s first-ever subsurface temperature profile revealing still-warm magma beneath its cooled crust Scientists have found that approximately 10% of Io’s surface consists of slowly cooling lava which explains how the moon rapidly renews its surface One of the most energetic eruptions in Io’s recorded history first detected during Juno’s December 27 was still spewing lava and ash as recently as March 2 Scientists expect more observations on May 6 when Juno flies 55,300 miles (89,000 km) past the moon Juno’s ever-changing orbit allows it to explore new regions of Jupiter’s complex system including the planet’s intense radiation belts and we’re learning more about this extreme environment each time we go through it.” © 2025 All Rights Reserved, Tech Explorist® An official website of the United States government Open Search  Mobile Menu < All Press Releases With an investment of $8.3 million from the Great American Outdoors Act the project will add engineered and living shoreline components to reduce erosion and sediments entering the Intracoastal Waterway the project includes construction of a retaining wall and an addition of shoreline access points The planting of upland and tidal vegetation will enhance and protect the area’s terrestrial and marine habitats these public lands will continue to lose seven feet of shoreline annually,” said BLM Acting Eastern States State Director Leah Baker “The BLM and our state and local partners are taking action to protect and enhance the shoreline at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area for all to enjoy now and into the future.” Federal funds for construction are matched by $7 million in cooperative grants from the Florida Inland Navigation District which provides government assistance to develop waterway access and improvement projects “We are excited to partner with the Bureau of Land Management in this effort,” said Florida Inland Navigation District Commissioner Austin Burkett. “This critical project will aid in protecting the navigability of the Intracoastal Waterway around the Jupiter Lighthouse and preserve shoreline access and opportunity for boaters and other recreationalists in perpetuity.” When the project is complete, visitors will have more access to the area’s educational facilities, shoreline, and the Loxahatchee River. The project will add resilient recreation features, including an improved kayak launch and dock, ADA-compliant walkways safety improvements to a marine education and snorkeling space and in-water structures that can withstand wave action The shoreline stabilization project complements earlier enhancement efforts completed in partnership with the Jupiter Inlet District, Loxahatchee River District, and the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum “We look forward to the continued partnership with the BLM on this project,” said Katrina Heller Executive Director of the Loxahatchee River Historical Society “This action will revitalize our public lands and safeguard historical resources and recreational opportunities in the area for generations to come.” the site is a vital space for public recreation preserving its history and natural beauty for future generations Additional information and planning documents are available at the BLM National NEPA Register The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations An official website of the Department of the Interior internal pressures are so high that electrons are squeezed off of hydrogen atoms This creates a powerful electricity-conducting metal that fuels Jupiter's enormous magnetic field — the second-largest in the solar system The planet might have a core of solid material or a thick dense \"soup,\" made mainly of partially-dissolved iron and silicon that could be up to 90,000 degrees Fahrenheit (50,000 degrees Celsius) but it used to be thousands of miles wider The Great Red Spot has even been seen eating other, smaller storms. Near Jupiter's south pole, there is also a dramatic hexagonal storm about the size of Texas Humans have launched many uncrewed expeditions to explore Jupiter and its moons gathering information about its intense radiation belts and snapping a few early photos both of which left Earth in 1977 and reached Jupiter in 1979 gathered amazing photos and data of the giant planet They revealed Jupiter's faint and dusty ring system the presence of volcanic activity on its moon Io and some previously unknown moons as well as two other large Jupiter moons: Ganymede and Callisto Jupiter has 95 known moons and thousands of other small objects orbit the giant planet Ganymede is the biggest moon in the solar system and is larger than the planet Mercury Some of Jupiter's other moons are also gigantic worlds Callisto has dramatic craters and may host a liquid ocean beneath its thick shell of ice Europa has a similar ice and ocean structure but its frozen outer shell is much thinner And brightly colored Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system Astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan once speculated about the possibility of jellyfish-like organisms staying afloat using helium gas in Jupiter's atmosphere but most researchers nowadays don't hold much hope for living organisms flitting about on the gas giant which is covered in a shell of ice that surrounds an enormous body of liquid water to be one of the likeliest places to find extraterrestrial life in the solar system Europa may have giant ice spikes on its surface making landing on the frozen world potentially difficult As one of the brightest objects in the night sky, Jupiter has been known about since ancient times, so it has many names from different cultures. For the ancient Greeks, Jupiter was known as Phaethon, which means \"blazing star.\" The Babylonians referred to the giant planet as Marduk, the patron deity of the city of Babylon. Other ancient names for Jupiter include Brhaspati (Sanskrit) Muxing (meaning \"Star of Wood\" in Mandarin) and Mushtari (Arabic) This image of Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent zones was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed its 12th close flyby of Jupiter The color-enhanced image is a combination of three separate images taken on April 1 NASA's Galileo probe passing over one of Jupiter's 16 moons in 1989 and whether the gas giant and its moons could host extraterrestrial life How far it is from the sun: an average distance of 484 million miles (779 million km) How big it is: 86,900 miles across (139,900 km) How many moons it has: 95 officially recognized moons Read on to learn more about the raging storms on Jupiter's surface the expeditions to explore Jupiter and its moons and whether any life could exist around the faraway planet dense "soup," made mainly of partially-dissolved iron and silicon Humans have launched many uncrewed expeditions to explore Jupiter and its moons Jupiter has 95 known moons Muxing (meaning "Star of Wood" in Mandarin) and Mushtari (Arabic) (Image credit: Corbis Historical via Getty Images)Great Red SpotJupiter's Great Red Spot is actually a massive storm that has been active for hundreds of years This photo of the Great Red Spot was taken by Voyager 1 in 1979 (Image credit: NASA)GanymedeGanymede is the largest moon in the entire solar system (Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)IoJupiter's colorful moon Io is full of volcanic activity (Image credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Kevin M Gill CC BY 3.0)EuropaIcy Europa is Jupiter's fourth-largest moon and one of the best candidates in the solar system to find extraterrestrial life (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)Europa ClipperAn illustration of the Europa Clipper orbiting Europa Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox specializing in astronomy and physics stories He has a bachelor's degree in astrophysics from UC Berkeley Cloudy with a chance of mushballs: Jupiter's monster storms include softball size hailstones made of ammonia Digital 'resurrection' of the Titanic sheds light on fateful night the ship tore apart (CBS12) — The owner of a Jupiter health and wellness business allegedly stole over $1,000 from an esthetics business after she was made the Medical Director The Jupiter Police Department (JPD) said that on March 4 the owner of Transformations Esthetics reported that five unauthorized transactions totaling $1,033 were made from her Wells Fargo business account the owner discovered that the transactions which were made under her Medical Director's name The report states that the payments were to entities unrelated to the esthetician business The payments included charges to Public Storage and utility companies Officers said that the victim confirmed that she has only paid Phipps and stated that Phipps has no access to her business accounts See also: Two Venezuelans nationals charged for fraudulent PPP loans, DOJ reports officers reported finding documentation revealing that Phipps was supposed to receive payment for each client she signed up with the owner had transitioned from digital payments to checks officers attempted to contact Phipps but were unable to reach her despite multiple attempts JPD said that they later discovered that Phipps had visited the business on April 8 inquiring about a check and leaving a note indicating she was planning a move to Alaska Authorities located Phipps at her residence on April 21 claiming her accounts had been hacked in January who also owns Phipps Health and Wellness in Jupiter has been accused of using an identity fraudulently Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. 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Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience ending a months-long guest starring role with the bright winter constellations but you can locate it close below the moon at nightfall on the 3rd the brightest star in the kite-shaped constellation Bootes the herdsman—and also the brightest in the northern hemisphere of sky—shines in the southeast to south gains prominence steadily throughout the month is part of the large Summer Triangle of bright stars just follow the curve of the Big Dipper’s handle Just west of Spica you’ll see a somewhat dim Venus and Saturn will be visible very low in the east at the start of twilight You may catch dim Saturn to the lower left of a waning moon on the 22nd which is bright but barely above the eastern horizon May’s full moon arrives near noon on the 12th but be sure to enjoy it as it rises in evening twilight on the 11th The Minnesota Timberwolves (33-29) are welcoming in the Utah Jazz (15-45) for a contest between Northwest Division foes… The Kansas Jayhawks versus the Houston Cougars is one of two games on Monday’s college basketball schedule that… The Tampa Bay Lightning versus the Florida Panthers is one of many solid options on today’s NHL slate.… The college basketball schedule on Monday is not one to miss Our computer model has recommended picks against… There are two games on the college basketball schedule on Monday that feature a ranked team the most volcanic body in our Solar System Scott Bolton, principal investigator of NASA's Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter has presented the latest findings from the mission during a briefing in Vienna on Tuesday 29 April 2025 at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly Bolton and the team showed how Juno has gained new insights into what's going on beneath the surface of Jupiter's atmosphere the most volcanic body in the Solar System The spacecraft's study of Jupiter has helped scientists better understand the rapid jet stream zipping round Jupiter's stormy north pole Juno has also revealed for the first time the subsurface temperature profile of moon Io enabling scientists to learn more about its inner structure and volcanic activity Jupiter's moon Io is a fiery world whose volcanoes were first confirmed by scientist Linda Morabito in 1979 using images captured by the Voyager spacecraft the gas giant is being explored by NASA's Juno spacecraft equipped with a microwave radiometer (MWR) that can peer through Jupiter's clouds The Juno science team have used this instrument to take a look at Io combining data with the probe's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) "The Juno science team loves to combine very different datasets from very different instruments and see what we can learn," says Shannon Brown "When we incorporated the MWR data with JIRAM’s infrared imagery we were surprised by what we saw: evidence of still-warm magma that hasn’t yet solidified below Io’s cooled crust Around 10% of Io's surface has remnants of slowly-cooling lava just beneath the surface This data could help planetary scientists decipher how Io's surface is renewed so quickly as well as how heat moves from its interior to its surface lava fields and subterranean lava flows act like a car radiator," says Brown JIRAM data shows the most energetic eruption in Io’s history (identified by Juno on 27 December 2024) was still firing out lava and ash as recently as 2 March 2025 Juno's flyby on 6 May 2025 should enable scientists to confirm this Juno has also been carrying out a unique manoeuvre whereby it transmits a radio signal to Earth and back the radio signal passing through Jupiter's atmosphere twice as it does so The effects of Jupiter's atmosphere on the radio waves enables mission scientists to get more info about the temperature and density of the planet's atmosphere Juno has completed 26 of these 'radio occultation soundings' which have achieved the first ever temperature measurement of Jupiter’s north polar stratospheric cap The technique found that the region is about 11°C cooler than its surroundings and is encircled by winds travelling at speeds of 100 mph (161 kph) and one of the key achievements of the Juno mission is the fact that its polar orbit – taking the spacecraft from pole to pole – has given scientists a view of the planet not seen before Juno has revealed the long-term movement of Jupiter’s north polar cyclone and the eight cyclones encircling it Scientists have found that each storm drifts toward the pole just like how hurricanes move across Earth Jupiter’s cyclones cluster together as they get closer to the pole "These competing forces result in the cyclones ‘bouncing’ off one another in a manner reminiscent of springs in a mechanical system," says Yohai Kaspi "This interaction not only stabilises the entire configuration which means we get a new vantage point each time as we perform a science flyby,' says Scott Bolton including spending more time in the strongest planetary radiation belts in the Solar System but we’ve built Juno like a tank and are learning more about this intense environment each time we go through it." What are your favourite moments from the Juno mission so far? Let us know by emailing contactus@skyatnightmagazine.com The celebration will take place on from 5:30 p.m The May 8 date marks the anniversary of the site’s designation as an Outstanding Natural Area in 2008 The meeting will also celebrate the 25th anniversary of the creation of a category of public lands called National Conservation Lands which protects America’s most ecologically significant and culturally important landscapes The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area is the only National Conservation Lands unit in the East.  “As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Bureau of Land Management's National Conservation Lands we invite the public to join us at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area for an engaging discussion about the invaluable resources we protect,” said Shayne Banks Acting Southeastern States District Manager “This annual meeting is a wonderful opportunity to connect with the community share our commitment to preserving these unique landscapes and discuss how we can work together to ensure their future Your voice matters in shaping the stewardship of our cherished natural and cultural treasures.”  Attendees will have an opportunity to engage directly with BLM leadership and partners. Speakers from the BLM and Loxahatchee River Historical Society will share information about the Outstanding Natural Area’s accomplishments over the past year including the shoreline stabilization efforts.   “We are thrilled to join the Bureau of Land Management in celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the National Conservation Lands,” said Katrina Heller Executive Director at the Loxahatchee River Historical Society “The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area is not only rich in history and cultural significance a but also stunning natural site This event underscores the strength of our partnership and our shared commitment to preserving the stories and landscapes that connect us all.”  The event is free and open to the public. For planning purposes, attendees are asked to RSVP by May 5, 2025, using this link: https://64862.blackbaudhosting.com/64862/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=64ec15a1-6277-4a53-a3f0-40143a5dc3f3.  Light refreshments will be provided by the Loxahatchee River Historical Society which operates the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum preserving and interpreting the rich history of the Jupiter Inlet area in partnership with the BLM and the community.  The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area encompasses 120 acres of significant natural and cultural resources It is managed by the BLM Eastern States Office as part of the National Conservation Lands.  The National Conservation Lands are currently comprised of 905 units covering more than 37 million acres 25 National Conservation Areas and similar designations   19 National Scenic and Historic Trails totaling nearly 6,000 miles    81 Wild and Scenic Rivers totaling nearly 2,700 miles   FL – The Jupiter Hammerheads (8-12) were shut out for the first time in the 2025 season as they fell to the Palm Beach Cardinals (13-7) by a final score of 9-0 on Saturday night at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium FL – The Jupiter Hammerheads (8-12) were shut out for the first time in the 2025 season as they fell to the Palm Beach Cardinals (13-7) by a final score of 9-0 on Saturday night at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium Jupiter also lost the first "Duel of the Dean" series of the season Eury Perez made a major league rehab appearance with his start the mound for Jupiter in his first appearance in any game since suffering an elbow injury on March 14 during Marlins Spring Training which led to “Tommy John” surgery Perez finished with one scoreless inning and allowed one hit with two strikeouts as his fastball touched 99 miles per hour Both teams put zeroes on the scoreboard until Palm Beach struck first in a big way in the top of the fourth inning off of Jupiter relief pitcher Julio Mendez (L The Cardinals scored seven runs in the frame and sent 11 hitters to the plate and Palm Beach took a commanding 7-0 lead The Cardinals added one more in the top of the fifth inning off of new Hammerheads pitcher Samuel Carpio with four walks in the inning and extended the lead to 8-0 Palm Beach added one more run in the top of the sixth to make it 9-0 finished his rehab appearance 0-for-2 at the plate before being pinch-hit for Jupiter relief pitcher Franklin Sanchez made his 2025 Jupiter debut and finished with 2 1/3 scoreless innings with five strikeouts Dillon Head hit his fourth triple of the season which puts him tied for most in the Florida State League along with A.J The “Dual of the Dean” series finale takes place on Sunday, April 27th with first pitch scheduled for 12:30 p.m. All fans can enjoy discounted $10 reserved box tickets every Sunday during the Florida State League season. Click here to purchase tickets The Jupiter Hammerheads “Star Wars” jersey auction is live now until Saturday Click here to go to the auction to place your bids on the game-worn limited edition jerseys with proceeds benefitting Loggerhead Marine Life Center the 110-acre complex/stadium is specially designed to house two Major League and two Minor League Baseball Teams The stadium is home to the Miami Marlins and the St The Florida State League’s Jupiter Hammerheads (Class A Affiliate of the Miami Marlins) and Palm Beach Cardinals (Class A Affiliate of the St Louis Cardinals) make their home at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium from April through September This year-round facility can accommodate the smallest birthday party to the largest corporate outing while never forgetting that each and every fan is our most important product FL – Minor League Baseball (MiLB) returns to "America’s Busiest Ballpark" this summer at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium as the Jupiter Hammerheads will begin their 2025 regular season campaign on Opening Night FL – Minor League Baseball (MiLB) returns to "America’s Busiest Ballpark" this summer at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium as the Jupiter Hammerheads as the visiting team against the reigning champion Palm Beach Cardinals The Hammerheads are scheduled to play 66 home games in Jupiter 2025 Jupiter will host East Division opponents Daytona (April 8-13 and August 5-10) and St Lucie (May 13-18 and July 29-August 3) for two series each in 2025 The Hammerheads will also host West Division opponents Clearwater (April 22-27) and Dunedin (August 19-24) for one series each in 2025 Myers and Tampa will not visit Jupiter for Hammerheads home games (Tampa and Ft Myers will visit Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium in 2025 but only to visit the Palm Beach Cardinals) will face each other in 27 games in Jupiter and the final regular season series (September 2-7) the Jupiter Hammerheads finished with a 65-65 record and fell just short of a playoff spot in the first half of the season Several top prospects in the Miami Marlins system like Noble Meyer and many more took the field for the Hammerheads in 2024 with several more expected to take the field for Jupiter in 2025 Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium staple promotions like Silver Sluggers and brand-new season-long ticket bundles like the 10-Game Fan Voucher Pack and the 2025 Suite Membership Individual game tickets for the season will go on sale during the annual "Fan Fest" event at the stadium on January 11th Follow the Jupiter Hammerheads and Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium on social media for all the latest updates and promotions Click here to view the full Jupiter Hammerheads 2025 schedule with all first pitch times included. Click here to view a PDF of all games scheduled at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium in 2025 The full 2025 minor league promotional schedule at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium will be announced at a later date FL – A couple of high-scoring innings including 15 unanswered runs by the Palm Beach Cardinals (12-7) put the Jupiter Hammerheads (8-11) in a big hole that they could not dig out of as the Hammerheads fell to the Cardinals 16-2 on Friday night at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium After both teams went scoreless in the first inning the Jupiter Hammerheads went to work on offense in the bottom of the second inning Jupiter drew back-to-back walks and then Yeral Martinez notched an RBI single to make it 1-0 in favor of the Sharks after two innings Jupiter starting pitcher Liomar Martinez (L 1-1) was cruising through his first four innings on the mound he and Jupiter relief pitcher Elian Serrata ran into trouble in the top of the fifth inning Palm Beach sent 13 hitters to the plate and scored eight runs to take a commanding 8-1 lead over Jupiter it’s the most runs allowed in an inning this season The Cardinals extended their lead in the top of the seventh inning on an RBI infield single by Anyelo Encarnacion which made it 9-1 in favor of Palm Beach the Beach Birds added six more runs on 10 batters to take a commanding 15-1 lead Jupiter got one more run across home plate in the bottom of the eighth inning as Abrahan Ramirez drove in Jesus Hernandez on an RBI single to make it a 15-2 deficit Palm Beach added another run in the ninth and the Hammerheads fell to the Cardinals by the 16-2 final score on Friday night the 17 hits is the most allowed in a game this season with the 14-run margin of defeat also being the largest of the season Jupiter needs to win the next two games to earn a series split against Palm Beach On May 5, 2025, two zodiac signs attract abundance and luck when Mercury in Aries forms a sextile with Jupiter in Gemini. We’re going to think fast and act even quicker to make our biggest dreams come true. Instincts are sharp today or finally hit “send” on that big application today’s astrology says you’re not just dreaming of success — you’re strategizing towards it fast Let’s examine which two zodiac signs are set to manifest abundance under this scintillating and audaciously charged path Today’s Mercury-Jupiter sextile brings you a serendipitous opportunity for growth can open the door to meaningful feedback and new opportunities Today, your old perspectives no longer serve you. As a result, you see the positive impact of mature communication If there's something important you've been meaning to address — with a sibling or even just within yourself — this is the moment to approach it with compassion you’ll find that your relationships flourish because of this This mindset helps others see your growth and gives you the confidence to push past old limitations You’re not just learning; you're expanding your thoughts about everything You’ve been reflecting on how your external presentation affects your internal experience and interactions with others and view the world is becoming more intentional The optimism you're feeling now isn’t just a mood, it’s a sign that your mindset is evolving. You're beginning to let go of old doubts and see what’s possible when you believe in your evolution Let that belief shape the way you move forward RELATED: 5 Chinese Zodiac Signs Attracting Major Luck & Abundance On May 5, 2025 and driven by a burning desire to evolve and today the cosmos is giving you precisely the fuel you need to develop You’re hopeful about your future than you have been in a long time the cosmos allows you to plan for all your goals It’s an excellent time to set intentions around personal development and stay open to unexpected avenues that could help you advance down your newfound path You’re ready to seek out new knowledge and experiences especially if it involves sharing your knowledge or collaborating with others The projects you initiate right now have the potential to grow with relative ease propelled by your renewed confidence and faith in the universe that everything will always work out in your favour But don't take on more than you can handle You could be tempted to take on just a little bit too much Reflect on whether your goals still match who you are and what matters to you this is the chance to refine them and ensure they align with what inspires you Mercury in Aries is helping you think clearly and quickly, so use that focus to break your long-term plans into smaller steps. Talk to people who have walked similar paths and learn from their experience. Your mind is sharp so use that clarity to organize your thoughts and plan your next steps You’re ready to focus on building an honest and meaningful future RELATED: 4 Zodiac Signs Receive A Powerful Sign From The Universe On May 5, 2025 Jla Starr Johnson is a journalist currently enrolled in the Professional Astrologer Training and Certification Diploma Program at Astrology University © 2025 by Tango Publishing Corporation All Rights Reserved FL - The Dunedin Blue Jays defeated the Jupiter Hammerheads 19-5 in a record setting walk fest on Tuesday night at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium in game one of a six-game series and the most in a full-season Minor League Baseball game in MLB stat portal history Dunedin was granted 25 free trips to first base on 22 walks and three hit by pitches JR Freethy and Sam Shaw both walked four times in the contest which marks the most in a game by any Blue Jay since Riley Tirotta on 4/19/24 vs All nine players in Dunedin’s order worked a walk while five walked multiple times and three batters walked at least three times Blue Jays starting pitchers have not allowed an earned run over 17.2 combined innings with 16 strikeouts 4 K) threw 3.2 innings without allowing an earned run and struck out four in his professional debut 2 prospect reached 95.2 MPH on the mound and induced nine whiffs for a 41% whiff rate All four of Yesavage’s strikeouts came over an eight-batter span Trey Yesavage's first professional strikeout comes on a successful challenge! pic.twitter.com/bbziCQrSOm 6 K) hurled four shutout frames in relief with six strikeouts and one hit yielded Stanifer averaged 95.5 MPH on his fastball and topped out at 97.4 MPH on the mound HBP) rocketed a two-run double in the 2nd inning and launched a solo homer in the 9th as part of a five RBI performance Munoz’s homer left the bat at 102 MPH and traveled 382 ft His five RBI and two walks both mark single-game career highs Munoz’s six total bases in the contest are the most by a Dunedin player in any game this season and are tied for second most by any Florida State League player in a game this season Munoz’s 1.402 OPS through four games this season leads the Florida State League Yeuni Munoz goes big fly💣 pic.twitter.com/7cFRr4mOpd 2 BB) registered his first multi-hit contest of the season Barry’s 4th inning single left his bat at 107.2 MPH 3B) roped a bases clearing three-run triple in the 3rd Toman matched his career-high with four RBI in the contest Tucker has a .500 on-base percentage with four walks to only one strikeout Box Score Postgame Notes Congress threw a $2.5 million lifeline last fall to start the long-planned effort to save Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area from erosion aimed at halting erosion that has been claiming about 7 feet of shoreline per year 6 and is expected to be completed by August 2026 If Congress had not granted the additional money through the Great American Outdoors Act officials would have had to cut the project to $14 million and put it out for new construction bids With the money in hand, however, Dickerson Infrastructure of Fort Pierce is preparing to begin the work Once completed, the project will transform the sea’s edge into a living shoreline using native plants and riprap to reduce erosion terraced walls and the creation of a 2-acre salt marsh While the prospect of massive federal budget cuts has endangered projects across the country the federal Bureau of Land Management manager overseeing the project said the congressional allocation appears safe some anchorages will be blocked intermittently during construction the project will eliminate all but five mooring spots along the Indian River on the park’s eastern side The work also will disrupt the 1-mile trail that winds around the lighthouse A 500-foot segment has been routed away from construction zones The elevated dune portion of the trail will be off-limits during construction The proposal calls for construction of 21 riprap breakwaters along the inlet side of the park to reduce wave action leading to a dock for ferries and water taxis The living shoreline uses nature rather than concrete barriers to protect the coast the project team is focusing on protecting the site’s resident wildlife: gopher tortoises and vital plant species They’ve been monitoring gopher tortoise burrows for 20 years identifying 10 burrows with about five tortoises The protected creatures will be temporarily relocated to other suitable areas within the 120-acre site “Gopher tortoises are such a delight to see on the site,” he said “We want to afford them as much protection as possible.” State law requires a 28-day monitoring period for gopher tortoise habitat workers are installing fences that go 18 inches below ground to block the burrowing animals The team is also watching for eastern indigo snakes a federally protected species known to inhabit tortoise burrows though they are rarely spotted on the site “We’re looking to make sure everybody survives,” DeWitt said “We’re trying to capture as much of that diversity that would otherwise be mowed down and destroyed by the earth-moving equipment,” DeWitt said Salvaged plants will be temporarily potted and maintained until they can be replanted after construction This story was originally published by Stet News Palm Beach Some features on this page require the use of a different browser Martin and extreme northern Palm Beach counties Jensen Beach to Jupiter Inlet Aquatic Preserve is 37 miles long and encompasses 23,000 acres the aquatic preserve extends from the southern corporate limits of Fort Pierce south to Jupiter Inlet including the Peck Lake and Hobe Sound area Incorporated and unincorporated cities along the aquatic preserve include Stuart The aquatic preserve is accessible from the east by U.S Highway A1A and from the west by Indian River Drive or U.S Numerous parks provide direct public access to the aquatic preserve The Indian River Lagoon Aquatic Preserves are a proud partner of the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics and were selected as a 2017 and 2018 Leave No Trace Hot Spot. To learn more about Leave No Trace in the Indian River Lagoon, contact Matthew Anderson, 772-448-5935 The Indian River Lagoon Aquatic Preserves provide a variety of volunteer opportunities from projects in ecosystem science Volunteers help with activities such as wildlife monitoring annual seagrass monitoring or microplastic sampling The Shoreline Restoration Project enables volunteers to get involved in shoreline stabilization through native plantings volunteers take a hand in improving visitor access through activities such as invasive plant removal Lucie Inlet State Park is easily accessed by boat and its quiet beaches are great for swimming boat ramps and local parks also offer access to the aquatic preserve Indian River Lagoon is also part of the Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail Jensen Beach to Jupiter Inlet Aquatic Preserve spans two segments of the paddling trail (segments 19 and 20: Palm Beach/Loxahatchee and Hobe Sound/Fort Pierce) The Florida Department of State's Division of Historical Resources Master Site File indicates there are scores of historical sites adjacent to the Indian River Lagoon Aquatic Preserves (IRLAP) System and include Spanish Fleet Survivors and Salvors Camp Many of the aboriginal shell mounds along the IRLAP System were destroyed for roadfill for U.S There are currently no Events/Public Notices that match the selected criteria.