Jovian

...the Persian campaign of Emperor Julian . He restored some religious persecution, and was Arian . In February 364, reigning Emperor Jovian, while hastening to Constantinople to secure his claim to the throne, was asphyxiated during a stop...

In this article: Valens, Procopius, Valentinian II, Athanaric, Gratian, and Valentinian I

...throne, desiring him to draw up a statement of the Orthodox faith. In Syriac literature Jovian became the hero of a Christian romance. From Jovian's reign until the 15th century Christianity remained the dominant religion of both...

In this article: Julian the Apostate, Christianity, Antioch, Tigris, and Charcoal

...as well as various moons. In scenes that would make Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner jealous, they have seen active volcanoes on the Jovian moon Io, and given hints that Europa has a liquid ocean under a layer of ice. They saw the rings around...

In this article: NASA, Voyager, Apollo, Moon, Earth, Explorer 1, Edwin Hubble, Mars rover, Voyager 1, and Viking

...return to Julian camp. At the time of Julian's death, there were rumors that he had intended Procopius to be his successor, but when Jovian was elected emperor by the Roman army, Procopius went into hiding to preserve his life. The ancient...

In this article: Valens, Valentinian I, Chalcedon, Constantinian dynasty, Battle of Thyatira, and Ammianus Marcellinus

...on asteroids and returned samples from comets. Huygens settled down on the Saturn moon Titan, and the Galileo probe descended through the Jovian atmosphere. Hubble helped us refine estimates of the age of the universe and understand more...

In this article: Mars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, NASA, Venus, Mars rover, Galileo probe, Hubble Space Telescope, and Titan

...of 33 diameters. Galileo monitored the phases of Venus, observed the hills and valleys of the Moon, predicted the motions of the Jovian moons, proved the rotation of the Sun on its axis and even drew little "ears" on Saturn, the...

In this article: Thomas Harriot, Galileo Galilei, Moon, Science Museum, Jupiter, Hubble Space Telescope, Oxford University, and Henry Percy

...locked in permafrost at its poles. Jupiter's moon Europa is likely home to a globe-girdling ocean beneath a thin rind of ice, and its Jovian sisters Callisto and Ganymede appear to be icy and wet too. Now, according to new findings by the...

In this article: Cassini, Saturn, Tethys, Voyager 1, Voyager, Dione, and Litter

In 363 he was old; he was in Antioch when Julian died. Datianus followed the new Emperor Jovian to Ancyra, where he passed the winter. When Jovian died, in February 364, Datianus wrote from Galatia to Nicaea, where the imperial court was...

In this article: Constantius II, Libanius, Antioch, Constantine I, Julian, Valentinian I, and Photinus

...helium becomes insoluble in dense metallic hydrogen. The results are directly relevant to models of the interior structure and evolution of Jovian planets. Hydrogen and helium are the two lightest and most common elements in the...

In this article: Helium, Saturn, Jupiter, Hydrogen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Methane, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California, and Los Alamos National Laboratory

...Earth. The enormous space stations of the Jovian Confederacy were the first to develop and field exo-armors. Thanks to the resources of the Jovian sub-system, the Confederacy is the richest nation in the solar system. Titan: the largest...

In this article: Dream Pod 9, Heavy Gear, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Overpopulation, Titan, and Hydrocarbon