The Moon's illumination is given at 12 P.M. local time from the same location. Let's return to Taurus and Jupiter in the east ...

Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter. Got a pair of binoculars? Point them at Jupiter tonight—or any night during its bright opposition month—and you’ll ...

The Moon's illumination is given at 12 P.M. local time from the same location. Saturday ... as its closest Galilean moon transits the disk with its shadow, while its farthest misses the planet ...

All together, they form a satellite system which is called the Jovian system. The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io; Europa; Ganymede; and Callisto, which were independently ...

Dexter defines The Galilean Suite as tone poems, but while Holst’s inspiration for The Planets was astrological, this work is influenced by what we know about the moons’ geology.

Jupiter is easy to spot with the naked eye, and with binoculars or a low power telescope, you can even see the Galilean moons. Looking west-southwest, you will be able to see two more planets ...

The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to NASA scientists intent on learning more about the innermost and third-largest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. For nine years, a spacecraft ...