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NASA’s Juno Mission Redefines Size, Shape of Jupiter

Data from NASA’s Juno mission has revealed that the solar system’s largest planet is slightly smaller and more “squashed” than previously

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Feb 4 • 11:13 AM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
Tiger Woods car accident live updates: PGA Tour legend arrested for DUI, released from jail after rollover crash near home in Jupiter Island, FL
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Mar 27 • 11:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jupiter High students take science out of the classroom for 30-year fish study

Jupiter High School students are helping track the health of the Indian River Lagoon through a fish study that has continued for more than 30 years.Students in

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Sep 26 • 4:38 PM EDT • Science • cbs12.com
An asteroid shattered near Jupiter’s gravitational gateway 800 million years ago; scientists say the debris may have bombarded Earth for 150 million years

A massive asteroid that broke apart around 800 million years ago may have sent a huge number of rocky fragments towards Earth, the Moon and Mars, according to a new study led by researchers at the Southwest Research Institute.

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Jul 20 • 4:04 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
PICROSS S KONAMI ANTIQUES edition announced for Switch

Jupiter has announced PICROSS S KONAMI ANTIQUES edition for Switch. It will launch via Nintendo eShop on April 30 for $17.99 / €17.99 / £16.19 / ¥1,800.

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Mar 22 • 11:01 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Why Europa's hidden ocean may be more difficult to reach than scientists thought

Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons, has long fascinated scientists because of what may lie beneath its frozen shell: a global ocean of liquid water. That hidden ocean has made Europa one of the most compelling ...

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Jul 24 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
New Media Event Jupiter Festival Planned from Art Basel Company

MCH Group, in which the Fox scion is the largest shareholder, is launching an event titled the Jupiter Festival with an eye toward becoming a stop on the thought leader circuit.

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Jun 25 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
In 1994 We Got To See How Long Impact "Craters" Last On Gas Giants, Courtesy Of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

The comet was discovered in its final stage before impact. As luck would have it, NASA had a probe on its way to Jupiter, perfectly placed to capture its demise.

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Jan 17 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • iflscience.com
What's Up: December 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

The 3I/ATLAS comet makes its closest approach to Earth, the Geminid meteor shower sparkles across the sky, and the Moon and Jupiter get close for a conjunction.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 3:42 PM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
Asteroid Bennu may have formed much closer to the Sun than scientists thought

Returned asteroid grains link Bennu, Ryugu and CI meteorites to a mixed dust reservoir shaped by ice and the young Jupiter.

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Sep 26 • 12:07 PM EDT • Science • thebrighterside.news
Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be Far More Ancient Than We Thought

The team attempted to pin down the visitor's origins, finding it is "unlike any Solar System body" and came from a different part of our galaxy altogether.

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Mar 17 • 11:43 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The discovery may finally explain the origins of several mysterious meteorite types that have survived since the birth of the Solar System.

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May 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
It’s not just gross: Seaweed buildup can pose health risks on South Florida beaches

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Jun 12 • 9:06 AM EDT • Health • cbs12.com
Jupiter-bound JUICE spacecraft just got an 8,000 mph speed boost from Earth: 'This is great news for science'

"All flybys are risky, requiring very careful planning and continuous monitoring."

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Sep 28 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • space.com
MOMENT OF SCIENCE: Two planets lighter than cotton candy

Astronomers have discovered two planets the size of Jupiter, but get this: their densities are so low, they’re estimated to be lighter than cotton candy!

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Jul 2 • 9:32 AM EDT • Science • wistv.com
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Jupiter Topco LLC Takes Position in Caesars Entertainment, Inc. $CZR

Jupiter Topco LLC bought a new stake in Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:CZR - Free Report) during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor bought 90,412 shares of the company's stock, valued at approxi

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Sep 3 • 3:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Why Scientists Are Still Figuring Out the Size and Shape of Jupiter

As astronomers catalogue thousands of exoplanets, why is our own solar system still so hard to detail?

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Feb 9 • 11:27 AM EST • Science • extremetech.com
Jupiter football players recap crazy fourth-quarter comeback at Lakes

Jupiter High football overturned a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to win at Palm Beach Lakes on Thursday, Sept. 17 in West Palm Beach.

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Sep 17 • 10:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Scientists stunned as JWST finds ice clouds on a giant alien planet

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric models. By directly imaging Epsilon Indi Ab with the James Webb Space Telescope, they found less ammonia than expected—likely hidden by thick, patchy clouds. The finding reveals new layers of complexity in giant planets and shows how much we still have to learn.

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Apr 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Man uses a Game Boy Camera to photograph Jupiter

With a big boost from Mount Wilson Observatory’s powerful Hooker Telescope.

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Jun 29 • 3:28 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Prospect Watch: Marlins Affiliate on Verge of Championship

The Jupiter Hammerheads sit one win away from Florida State League glory, while the Blue Wahoos prepare for postseason action behind a wave of surging power prospects.

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Sep 14 • 9:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sinkers, Floaters, And Hunters: Carl Sagan Once Proposed There Could Be Gigantic Life On Jupiter, Stretching Kilometers Across

According to Sagan, creatures on Jupiter would be incentivized to grow larger than any in Earth's history. The larger they got, the more advantage they would have.

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Oct 2 • 6:25 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
A ‘forbidden planet’ the size of Jupiter has astronomers stumped

TOI-5205 b has an odd amount of heavy metals.

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Apr 2 • 5:15 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
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Tenet and Cigna reach agreement to keep Palm Beach Health Network in-network for patients

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Jan 1 • 2:25 PM EST • Health • cbs12.com
WATCH: Jupiter defeats Palm Beach Central in key district clash

Jupiter took down Palm Beach Central in an important district game, continued from Friday's lightning suspension. The Warriors now control their district destiny.

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Oct 19 • 11:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How to watch Jupiter and Venus as they join in the sky this week

You may have noticed two bright "stars" in the west after sunset. Those aren't stars but rather two planets: Jupiter and Venus. And they're on their way for a beautiful meet-up in the days ahead.

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May 31 • 4:00 AM EDT • Science • cbc.ca
Scientists Subjected Fruit Flies To Hypergravity And Their Behavior Became Counterintuitive

Some of the flies were subjected to extreme hypergravity for 10 whole generations, living out their lives in conditions found around a super-Jupiter.

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May 12 • 10:24 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
White House budget puts 54 NASA science missions on the chopping block

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions

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Apr 9 • 5:35 PM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com
Tiger Woods involved in rollover car crash in Florida, authorities say

The incident took place in Jupiter Island, Florida on Friday afternoon.

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Mar 27 • 4:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Roland JUPITER-08: the Boutique Jupiter is back in a souped-up version

Roland JUPITER-08 brings back the Boutique Jupiter-8 as a bi-timbral Synthesizer with up to 32 voices, built-in FXs, and a sequencer.

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Oct 20 • 3:00 AM EDT • Technology • synthanatomy.com
'A Haunting' Revived At Radial Entertainment With Jupiter Pictures

Radial Entertainment is bringing back the series after acquiring the New Dominion Pictures library earlier this year.

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Oct 12 • 1:26 AM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
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Speak Up: Readers weigh in on New Mexico politics and Project Jupiter

Readers share views on Project Jupiter, Medicaid, the governor's race, ABQ Ride and more.

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Oct 18 • 12:26 AM EDT • Politics • abqjournal.com
Juufuutei Raden’s Guide for Pixel Museum DLC ‘Hakone Travelogue’ announced

Jupiter Corporation has announced pixel puzzle game Juufuutei Raden’s Guide for Pixel Museum downloadable content “Hakone Travelogue.” It will launch in December.

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May 17 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
NASA’s Europa Clipper Observes Comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Nov. 6 from a distance of about 102 million miles (164 million kilometers). Captured

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Dec 18, 2025 • 12:01 PM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
Get to know: '27 Arkansas baseball commitment CJ Wall

Class of 2027 Arkansas baseball commitment CJ Wall was recently named the MVP of a prestigious event in Jupiter, Florida.

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Oct 15 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • wholehogsports.com
Six planets due to parade across night sky in rare celestial spectacle

Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at same time in curved line across sky

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Feb 27 • 9:59 AM EST • Science • theguardian.com
Tiny Grains From Asteroid Bennu Reveal How Jupiter Shaped the Early Solar System

The asteroid’s dust may preserve a record of how planets assembled 4.5 billion years ago.

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Sep 29 • 1:22 PM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Take a visual tour of bands playing at Wahoo Music Festival in Jupiter

Wahoo Music Festival will feature six artists at the Abacoa Town Center in Jupiter on Feb. 28. See photos.

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Feb 12 • 1:30 PM EST • Entertainment • palmbeachpost.com
NASA’s Juno Reveals New Insights into Cosmic Ray Origins

Particles traveling close to the speed of light near Jupiter were captured by NASA’s Juno mission, providing new evidence for how and where high-energy

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Jun 3 • 11:05 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
This “forbidden” exoplanet has an atmosphere scientists can’t explain

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere surprisingly poor in heavy elements—even less enriched than its own star, which defies current theories of how giant planets form.

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Apr 6 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Deflated: Israeli scientists find Jupiter is smaller than previously thought

Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers make most precise measurement to date, say the gas giant is thinner and flatter than believed

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Feb 1 • 9:04 AM EST • Science • timesofisrael.com
Varying Water Clouds Detected Beyond The Solar System For The First Time – And They’re Not Around A Planet

Just a few times larger than Jupiter, with water clouds? It sounds like WISE 0855 is applying for honorary planet status.

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Oct 13 • 6:50 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
Starwatch: Jupiter shines steady in Gemini

Solar system’s largest planet remains a brilliant, unwavering beacon, forming a striking trio with Castor and Pollux

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Feb 23 • 3:43 AM EST • Science • theguardian.com
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Montana State researcher featured in New York Times science story

Fractured ice of Thwaites Glacier could help scientists understand the frozen sub-surface environment on Jupiter’s moon Europa.

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Feb 13 • 3:37 PM EST • Science • montana.edu
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NASA’s Webb telescope just discovered one of the weirdest planets ever

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and possibly diamonds at its core. Its extreme gravity stretches it into a lemon shape, and it completes a full orbit in under eight hours. Scientists are stunned — no known theory explains how such a planet could exist.

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Jan 1 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter

ESA’s Juice spacecraft raced past Earth on September 28, using our planet’s gravity to dramatically reshape its path toward Jupiter without burning much fuel. The flyby changed its direction by 20 degrees and increased its speed by 3.5 km/s, while also giving scientists a rare chance to test its instruments on Earth and the Moon.

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Oct 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
New images show an interstellar comet that will soon make its closest approach to Earth

New images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a Jupiter-bound mission showcase interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ahead of its close pass by Earth.

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Dec 8, 2025 • 4:03 PM EST • Science • cnn.com
NASA Volunteers Double Known Population of Brown Dwarfs

A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project began. Brown dwarfs are balls of gas the size of Jupiter, less massive than stars. There’s one for every three or four stars near the Sun.

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May 5 • 9:48 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
This week's Palm Beach County high school sports schedule (Jan. 5-10)

Here's a look at the upcoming schedule for boys and girls basketball as well as boys and girls soccer for the week of Jan. 5-10.

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Jan 5 • 5:02 AM EST • Sports • palmbeachpost.com
The Benjamin School Buccaneers top Jupiter Christian School Eagles

The Benjamin School Buccaneers top Jupiter Christian School Eagles, Bucs win 3 games to 1 in match with Eagles

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Sep 30 • 2:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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San Diego County issues health warning over recalled cheese

Officials issued a warning this weekend urging residents not to eat Northern California-based Sierra Nevada Graziers raw milk cheese.

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Sep 26 • 5:29 PM EDT • Health • nbcsandiego.com
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Roland unveils a new Jupiter-8-inspired Boutique synth in celebration of the original's 45th birthday – and drops an all-new wavetable synth too

A pint-sized take on the '80s classic, the Jupiter-08 launches alongside the N/vision, a wavetable synth that promises "rich tonalities, evolving textures and sophisticated sound design"

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Oct 20 • 3:00 AM EDT • Technology • musicradar.com
Jupiter Festival Miami: Big Names in Media, Entertainment, Sports Will Connect, Collaborate, Make Deals

The festival, which runs Oct. 6-9, is taking the lead to define a new era of the media world by providing space for community building in real life

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Oct 1 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
No Peeking: What Are These Two Objects Meeting In The June Twilight Sky?

Views like this do not happen every year.

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Jun 15 • 12:18 PM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
Is a Sea Change Coming for New Horizons Heliospheric Science?

If you visit the New Horizons mission website frequently, you'll notice that the spacecraft continues to generate excellent science as it plows its way through the Kuiper Belt. It recently woke up from its latest hibernation period in good health and is transmitting data it gathered back to Earth. The spacecraft, in addition to studying the Jupiter system in 2007, the Pluto system in 2015, and the Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth in early 2019, has been doing some other fascinating solar system science since then thanks to two mission extensions in 2016 and 2023. Now, as a result of budget cuts at NASA, an important part of the NH science mission could end as early as October of this year.

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Sep 1 • 9:03 PM EDT • Science • universetoday.com
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Free summer celebration Saturday at Manatee Lagoon to feature science, stories, activities

WPEC CBS 12 provides local news, weather, sports, traffic and entertainment for West Palm Beach and nearby towns and communities in South Florida including the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast, serving Stuart, Royal Palm Beach, Fort Pierce, Vero Beach, Port St. Lucie, Okeechobee, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, Wellington, Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Lake Worth, Boynton Beach, Greenacres, Belle Glade, Palm Beach, and Riviera Beach.

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Jul 23 • 9:41 AM EDT • Science • cbs12.com
ARDS patients improve with experimental treatment

JUPITER, Fla. — Doctors have few options for patients who develop a life-threatening lung condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS. A…

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Jun 30 • 1:39 PM EDT • Health • ufhealth.org
NASA’s TESS Mission Reveals the “Puffiest” Planets Ever Found

NASA has revealed two new “super-puff” planets, giant worlds so light that their density is comparable to cotton candy. Scientists calculate that these Jupiter-sized planets are the “puffiest” worlds ever found.

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Jun 24 • 9:04 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
B.3 Living With a Star Science Clarification Regarding Interagency Awards

B.3 Living With a Star Science (LWS) emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the coupled Sun-Earth system that affect life and

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Dec 5, 2025 • 2:18 PM EST • Science • science.nasa.gov
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Scientists Say: Van Allen belts

Astronomers have detected these radiation belts around Earth and beyond. Jupiter’s belt is thousands of times as intense as Earth’s.

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Dec 1, 2025 • 6:30 AM EST • Science • snexplores.org
China gets closer to Jupiter mission by bringing Nasa’s StarNAV concept to life

The tech uses subtle shifts in starlight to track speed and position, allowing spacecraft to navigate deep space alone.

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Sep 21 • 10:02 AM EDT • Science • scmp.com
A mission NASA might kill is still returning fascinating science from Jupiter

We can’t quite afford to support everything that we have done in the past."

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Mar 23 • 6:49 PM EDT • Science • arstechnica.com
At ISC, JUPITER Shows What Exascale Science Looks Like

Europe’s first exascale supercomputer — running on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips — is mapping the brain, modeling climate, advancing 6G AI and breaking records in quantum computing simulation.

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Jun 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • blogs.nvidia.com
Jupiter Topco LLC Takes $1.89 Million Position in Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. $LYV

Jupiter Topco LLC purchased a new position in Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:LYV - Free Report) during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 10,306 shares of the company's sto

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Sep 4 • 3:44 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Jupiter lighthouse gears up for events through late 2027

The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum is preparing to shine even brighter, with a packed lineup of special events closing out 2026 and a full calendar of new experiences already

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Oct 7 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
St. Patrick's Day celebrated at Jupiter Irish Fest in Abacoa

At downtown Abacoa in Jupiter, the two-day festival in its sixth year featured authentic food, drinks, culture, entertainment, and live music.

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Mar 15 • 7:37 PM EDT • Entertainment • palmbeachpost.com
'Textbooks will need to be updated': Jupiter is smaller and flatter than we thought, Juno spacecraft reveals

Jupiter is smaller and flatter than scientists previously thought, new measurements of the gas giant reveal.

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Feb 4 • 5:00 AM EST • Science • livescience.com
Feast of Little Italy honors Italian heritage in Jupiter

The music will be playing, the pizza will be hot, and the streets of Abacoa will soon be filled with the sights, sounds and flavors of Italy.

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Oct 16 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
Tiger Woods has been involved in car crash in Jupiter Island, Florida

Tiger Woods involved in rollover crash, cops confirm – five years after near-fatal accident left him fearing hed lose leg

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Mar 27 • 3:45 PM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Matthew Morrison brings Broadway magic to Jupiter stage

From “Glee” to Broadway, Matthew Morrison brings star power, storytelling and showstopping music to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre for one unforgettable night.

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Oct 15 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
Tiger Woods Signals His Rehab Following DUI Arrest Is Over

In late March, Tiger Woods announced that he would be stepping away from golf - and the public eye - as he sought treatment following his DUI arrest. The 15-time major champion was arrested in Jupiter Island, Florida following a rollover car accident. "I know and understand the seriousness of the ...

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May 13 • 6:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scientists “truly astonished” by discovery that challenges Earth’s origin story

A new study suggests Earth formed almost entirely from material in the inner Solar System, challenging the idea that water-rich material from beyond Jupiter played a major role. If correct, Earth’s water may have been present much closer to the young Sun than scientists previously thought.

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Sep 15 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
The solar system's largest moon may be heating up — offering clues to its mysterious origins

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.

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May 25 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Two ‘super-puff’ planets are as wispy as cotton candy

TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c are about the size of Jupiter, but 28–35 times less dense.

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Jun 24 • 9:01 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Newborn Planet Sets Record as Youngest Known World

Elias 2-24 b, a Jupiter-mass planet under a million years old, is the youngest world ever confirmed and is still growing in the disk around its star

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Sep 27 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • tovima.com
The disunity of science is a feature, not a bug

Mathematical models wield miraculous power, but mistaking them for reality has trapped science in a destructive quest for a “Theory of Everything.” Physicist and philosopher Ragner Fjelland argues that this leads to bloated, Frankenstein theories kept alive by clumsy, ad-hoc amendments, which reduce rather than boost science’s power. Fjelland calls for a radical shift in our attitude: we must reorientate towards creating entirely new theories, celebrating rather than lamenting disunity and diversity in science. Science, from the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present day, has more or less developed in a “reductionist” way. The fundamental assumption is that all sciences may be ordered in a hierarchy that can be represented as an upside-down pyramid. At the top we find the human sciences, and at the bottom physics. Strong (or “ontological”) reductionism maintains that all theories at one level can be completely reduced to the lower level, all the way down to theories of atoms and elementary particles, or whatever is “at the bottom.” In the end, all diversity in the world can be unified in one fundamental theory. Hence it is called a final theory, or a Theory of Everything.One of the central figures in developing the idea of a Theory of Everything is the Dutch theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft, who received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1999 for his work. He emphasizes the non-empirical status of the theory:There exists no closely resembling alternative theory. This means that any slight change brought about in the rules would make the theory unlikely or inelegant. The theory will be a "package deal": take it, or leave it. This should hold both for the local laws and for the boundary conditions.This endeavor is not new. On the contrary, it goes all the way back to the birth of Western philosophy 2,500 years ago. The Babylonians made regular astronomical observations during a period of 600 years, from 747 BCE until 150 ACE. They developed mathematical techniques to predict astronomical phenomena, but they made no attempts at explaining them. However, the Greeks developed models, both material and theoretical, to explain the observed phenomena.The best example is Plato’s late dialogue Timaeus. Here he introduces a divine craftsman, the Demiurge, who has constructed the universe according to an original plan. Plato seems to have thought that the original plan is what is actually real, while the material world is merely an imperfect realization of it. He therefore does not, in the Timaeus, reconstruct the material universe, but the original plan, which can then be used to explain the material universe.Plato’s aim in producing a theoretical model is to reconstruct the original plan. That is what he carries out in Timaeus—and some modern physicists have embarked on the same project. For example, Einstein’s basic attitude is reflected in the title of Abraham Pais’ biography: “Subtle is the Lord...,” echoing Einstein’s comment, “Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.” In an interview Einstein compared our situation to a child who enters a huge library. The child knows that someone has written the books, but he does not know the languages in which they are written. He suspects that there is a mysterious order, but he does not know what it is.___“We have all been working in what Husserl called the Galilean style; that is, we have all been making abstract mathematical models of the universe to which at least the physicists give a higher degree of reality than they accord the ordinary world of sensation.”Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)___This Platonist view is contrary to a widespread impression of science, symbolized by the picture of the “father” of modern science, Galileo Galilei, with his telescope. According to this impression, Galileo liberated himself from the dominating metaphysics of his day—basically Aristotelian philosophy—and constructed a telescope that he directed towards the sky, showing that Jupiter has four moons. He also performed experiments with bronze balls rolling down inclined planes and found the law of freely falling bodies.However, in other cases Galileo emphasized the unreliability of our senses. It is easy to see why. He defended Copernicus’ heliocentric hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, we are not at rest at the center of the universe, but moving at a tremendous speed through space. Why don’t we observe this motion? Galileo praises Copernicus because “with reason as his guide he resolutely continued to affirm what sensible experience seemed to contradict.” In other places he directly refers to Plato. SUGGESTED VIEWING The quest for a final theory With Michio Kaku Galileo’s Platonism goes back to his early writings. In The Assayer, published as early as 1623, Galileo compared the universe to a grand book that is written in the language of mathematics, and “its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.” Therefore, things that cannot be described by mathematics—for example, colors, smells and odors—are not real. They are merely subjective.This division into subjective and objective, advocated by Galileo and his younger contemporary René Descartes, is normally associated with a mechanistic world view, which is regarded as the opposite of Platonism. When we reduce something to, for example, molecules and atoms, we move “downwards.” In contrast, the Platonist moves “upwards,” to abstract entities. However, it only shows that when we address fundamental questions, we should be careful in applying everyday spatial metaphors like “up” and “down.”___Nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world.___The endeavor of finding a Theory of Everything has been heavily criticized. In 2006, the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin published “The Crisis in Fundamental Physics.” He argued that one of the most fundamental principles of science is that we should only regard theories as scientific if we have the possibility to show that they are false by experiments. Although he did not refer to Karl Popper, other critics have referred to Popper and argued that a theory is not scientific if it cannot be falsified (see for example Ellis & Silk 2014).These were not the first physicists to be anti-reductionists. In 1972, the journal Science published an article by the physicist Philip Anderson with the title “More Is Different.” This is the kind of article a scientist would normally write only after he has won a Nobel Prize. However, Anderson won the Nobel Prize for physics five years later, in 1977. The article is amazing, not primarily because it argues in favor of anti-reductionism in general, but because it argues for anti-reductionism within physics itself. Anderson’s conclusion was:At each stage entirely new laws, concepts, and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.We may say that Plato started the “unity of science movement,” based on Euclidean geometry as the model of all knowledge. A distinguishing mark of geometry is that all possible constructions can be reduced to a few fundamental principles. We have to acknowledge that this approach has limitations. In general, we can easily model technological systems. In addition, we may construct simplified and idealized models that capture important aspects of systems, from various perspectives and for various purposes. But nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world. In a complex system, each level has its distinct, emergent, properties that are characteristic of this level. Therefore, a complex system should be investigated at different levels and from different perspectives. Instead of exclusively pursuing a scientific ideal based on the unity of science, we should acknowledge the diversity—or even the disunity—of science.

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Set your alarm: Jupiter will disappear behind the crescent moon in a once-in-a-decade alignment tomorrow

Skywatchers in the U.S. and eastern Canada can see a rare lunar occultation of Jupiter early on Oct. 6. Here are the exact times to see the giant planet vanish and reappear.

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Founders’ Day ceremony celebrates 65 years of discovery at Cox Science Center & Aquarium

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Minor League Season Comes to an End For Marlins Affiliates

From championship glory in Jupiter to historic base-stealing in Pensacola, witness how top prospects like Brandon Compton and Echedry Vargas fueled a dynamic year across the farm system.

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Pink Jupiter?! The science behind this psychedelic view of the gas giant is key to what makes the planet tick

Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of Jupiter in ultraviolet light as part of a study to 3D-map the gas giant's cloud system.

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Jupiter’s moons may have formed with the ingredients for life

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists modeled how complex organic molecules—essential building blocks for biology—could have formed in the swirling disk of gas and dust around the young Sun and later been carried into Jupiter’s own moon-forming disk. Their results suggest that up to half of the icy material that built moons like Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto may have delivered freshly made organic compounds without being chemically destroyed.

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