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This is an artist's concept of a plume of water vapor thought to be ejected off the frigid, icy surface of the Jovian moon Europa, located about 500 million miles (800 million kilometers) from the sun. Spectroscopic measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope led scientists to calculate that the plume rises to an altitude of 125 miles (201 kilometers) and then it probably rains frost back onto the moon's surface. Previous findings already pointed to a subsurface ocean under Europa's icy crust. (NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI)

Jupiter's moon Europa teems with water

Nicole Karlis
This composite image of photographs made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 29, 2000 shows the planet Jupiter. The photographs taken during the Cassini's closest approach to the gas giant at a distance of approximately 10 million kilometers (6.2 million miles). The Great Red Spot, a fierce storm larger than Earth, has been observed for centuries. But in recent years, it has been mysteriously shrinking. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute via AP) (AP)

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Donna Pierce - The Conversation
Artist's conception of SIMP J01365663+0933473, an object with 12.7 times the mass of Jupiter, but a magnetic field 200 times more powerful than Jupiter's. This object is 20 light-years from Earth. (Chuck Carter, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Rogue planet lurks in Earth's 'hood

Nicole Stock
An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

The powerful cyclones of Jupiter

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Mike Ehrmann)

Trump sues over golf course — again

Charlie May
(Shutterstock/Salon)

The planet where it rains sunscreen

Keith A. Spencer
Artist concept of Haumea with the newly-discovered ring. (IAA-CSIC/UHU)

Haumea, the dwarf planet with... rings?

Keith A. Spencer
Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)

Scott Eric Kaufman
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how long you'd survive on each planet (Screenshot from Business Insider)

Sarah Gray
NASA JPL Rover (screenshot)

Sarah Gray
An artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a pass over Jupiter. (NASA)

Alexander Besant - GlobalPost
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