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August 16, 2019

A Baby Planet Might Have Smashed Right Into Young Jupiter

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Jupiter’s core seems off, astronomers think, in a way explainable by an ancient collision with another enormous body, perhaps one 10 times the mass of Earth.

Volcanic Plume Rising From Jupiter’s Moon Io Spotted by Juno Probe

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While performing its 17th flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft witnessed a volcanic plume erupting from the surface of Io, the most geologically active of the gas giant’s 79 known moons.