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Jupiter

Illustrated chart of the eastern to southern sky from Delhi at 6 am on 16 November 2026. Venus is about 20 degrees up in the east, Mercury lower at 8 degrees, and Jupiter and Mars sit side by side about 73 degrees up in the south-east near the star Regulus.

Which planets you can see from India this winter, and when to look

This evening only Saturn is up. The real gathering is before sunrise, when Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury share the sky. By February, Jupiter and Mars move into the evening at their brightest of the season.

CosmosLens EditorsNovember 10, 20265 min read

Europa’s pale, cream-colored surface crossed by reddish-brown cracks and ridges, against a black background.

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An ocean under the ice, and a spacecraft on its way

Jupiter’s moon Europa probably holds about twice as much liquid water as all of Earth’s oceans. Juno has now measured the ice above it, and Europa Clipper arrives in 2030 to ask whether that ocean could support life.

CosmosLens EditorsNovember 8, 20264 min read1 view