This happens because, although Earth and Jupiter both have orbits around the sun that are almost circular, they are not perfectly circular. Both orbits are slightly oval shaped, called elliptical ...

In an elliptical orbit of Jupiter since July 2016, the school bus-sized spacecraft 65th perijove occurred on Sept. 20, when it dipped close to Jupiter's cloud tops. The first mission to orbit an ...

We get to view some mesmerising pictures of galaxies, planets and ... began in August 2011 and reached around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Using a very elliptical orbit, the spacecraft explores ...

"Clearly there is something interesting going on." The Hubble Space Telescope image you see above is from last year, and it showcases several galaxies that inhabit a pocket of our universe roughly ...

Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn ... It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk relative ...