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Sky-watchers across India will be able to witness a stunning conjunction of Venus and Jupiter on June 9. The two brightest planets in the night sky will appear unusually close together, creating one of the year's most spectacular naked-eye astronomical events.

Here’s a guide to spot the four planets without special equipment

The celestial event consists of six planets -- Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Neptune, and Uranus to be lined up in a row across the sky

This event, called the “Parade of Planets,” happens when several planets appear to line up together in the sky, even though they are far apart in the space.

A new photo from NASA's Juno spacecraft showcases vivid, swirling clouds across Jupiter's skies, reminiscent of colorful brushstrokes on a painting

Integrated onto the spacecraft is a technology demonstration called Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC). DSOC will test high-data-rate laser communications -- which could be used by future NASA missions -- beyond the Moon for the first time.

In the coming months, Juno's orbits will repeatedly take it close to Jupiter as the spacecraft passes over the giant planet's night side

From meteor showers to lunar eclipse, the month is packed with celestial wonders.

The journey began with a morning liftoff by Europe's Ariane rocket from French Guiana in South America

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan treated fans with a video he shared on Instagram of five planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus beautifully aligned in a straight line

Five planets are all set to align forming a rare parade of planets. Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Uranus will be visible just after sunset on March 27

Jupiter and Venus came in conjunction on the night sky in Hyderabad and reached extremely close in proximity to each other

The Trojan asteroids are trapped in orbits around the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter, either far ahead of or behind the giant planet.

From the viewpoint of Earth's surface, opposition happens when an astronomical object rises in the east as the Sun sets in the west, placing the object and the Sun on opposite sides of Earth.

New Delhi: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new stunning images of Jupiter that will give scientists even more clues to the planet’s inner life. With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter has a lot going on. In the standalone view of Jupiter, created from a composite of several […]

New Delhi: After releasing stunning coloured images of thousands of galaxies in our universe, NASA has now unveiled outstanding images of Jupiter and spectra of several asteroids taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The data demonstrates Webb’s ability to track solar system targets and produce images and spectra with unprecedented detail, the US space agency […]

New York: Five major planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn — in our solar system are lined up in a row for rare planetary conjunction visible to the naked eye. In a clear sky, the planets can be seen shining before dawn. It is a special opportunity to see Mercury, which is usually […]

Washington: NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent process”. This discovery supports a long-debated theory for how planets like Jupiter form, called “disk instability”, the researchers said. The new planet under construction is embedded in a protoplanetary […]

The Sun releases a constant stream of particles and magnetic fields called the solar wind. This solar wind slams worlds across the solar system with particles and radiation which can stream all the way to planetary surfaces unless thwarted by an atmosphere, magnetic field, or both. Comet As the comet gets closer to the Sun, […]

During the flyby on June 7, Juno came within 645 miles (1,038 kilometres) of the surface of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede and took two images from the Jupiter orbiter's JunoCam imager and from its Stellar Reference Unit star camera.