See the Stunning First-Ever Video of Jupiter and Its Moons

Jul 06, 2016, 12:42 AM

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You're not going to find a lot of romance in orbital physics. Little objects orbit big objects; big objects orbit bigger objects. The entire galaxy orbits around a central pivot point. It's all momentum and velocity and the hard hand of gravity. And then all at once it becomes a bit of poetry. If you didn't believe that already, the Juno spacecraft should change your mind.

Juno, a four-ton (3,600 kg), 11-ft. (3.5 m) robot probe which entered orbit around Jupiter at 11:35 p.m.