*** EXTRAORDINARY PRESS RELEASE *** As part of a global collaboration, researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of Saint-Barthélemy have published a landmark study on Kallichore, a moon of Jupiter, in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Astronomy This marks the first physical characterization of one of the smallest irregular moons of the Solar System’s giant planet. […]
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