In recent decades, over 4,000 extrasolar planets have been confirmed beyond our Solar System. With so many planets available for study, astronomers have learned a great deal about the types of planets that exist out there and what kind of conditions are prevalent.
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn.
A conjunction between Venus and Saturn in the SE sky shot from my front yard. The star Antares is below and slightly to the right. I did some toning in Photoshop to brighten the stars, but they’re still hard to see at this size.