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Hammon's Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, 1806. Jupiter Hammon (October 17, 1711 – c. 1806) [1] was an American writer who is known as a founder of African-American literature, as his poem published in 1761 in New York was the first by an African American man in North America.
The Ides (the midpoint of the month, with a full moon) was sacred to Jupiter, because on that day heavenly light shone day and night. [80] Some (or all) Ides were Feriae Iovis , sacred to Jupiter. [ b ] On the Ides, a white lamb ( ovis idulis ) was led along Rome's Sacred Way to the Capitoline Citadel and sacrificed to him. [ 81 ]
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.It is a gas giant with a mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
Astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini first observed what he called the “Permanent Spot” on Jupiter in 1665. New research suggests that the Great Red Spot formed about 190 years ago, which ...
In the case of Women’s History Month, “this combination of the uplifting mood of white, calming and inspiring effects of purple, and the feelings of harmony and rebirth elicited by the color ...
This photo, and many other images that have been released from Juno's extended mission, employs color enhancement to help visualize the depth between the layers of clouds in Jupiter's deep atmosphere.
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Once every 53.5 days, NASA's Juno probe screams over Jupiter's cloud, capturing stunning images in the process.