Photographer Brennan Gilmore has taken advantage of Jupiter’s closest position to Earth in the past 59 years and captured a photo of the gas giant with its four Galilean moons on the roof of a barn. The photo shows Jupiter along with its moons, from left to right, Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto and was …
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The moon’s poles shifted following asteroid impacts over billions of years, new research has found. Astronomers have long used lunar craters to chart the history of moon and the whole solar system, because the pattern of destruction left behind by asteroid impacts paints a picture of the violent conditions found in the young solar system. …
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Ancient collisions with asteroids actually moved the moon’s north and south poles about 300 km, scientists have revealed in a new study. A team from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland has used computer simulations to ‘erase’ thousands of craters from the lunar surface – as if they traveled back in time to 4.25 …
