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On the evening of June 9, 2026, Venus and Jupiter will close to within 1.5 degrees of each other in the western sky. They'll look like neighbors, but the actual gap between them is hundreds of millions of kilometers. Here's what a conjunction really is, and how to make the most of it.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured detailed observations of Jovian lightning, confirming discharges with more than a million times the energy of Earth's. We look at 613 microwave pulses, the reason water behaves so differently in a hydrogen sky, and what the storm planet is still hiding.
Jupiter boasts four Galilean moons while Saturn's only large moon is Titan. A study published in April 2026 traced that striking difference to the planets' magnetic fields — an invisible barrier that determined which moons lived and which ones fell.