{"id":242903,"date":"2025-12-20T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:10:29","slug":"pictures-pixels-and-picks-the-planetary-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242903\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures, pixels, and picks | The Planetary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to cozy up with a good space book? We\u2019ve got you covered.<\/strong> The Planetary Society\u2019s virtual book club read a great space book each month this year, and we\u2019ve compiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/articles\/2025-book-club-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an overview of the entire selection<\/a>. From fiction to autobiography, history to hard science, there\u2019s a book for everyone among our picks from 2025 (pictured). Image credit: Mark Hilverda.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve heard of habitable planets, but what about habitable stars?<\/strong> Not all stars are as life-sustaining as our Sun \u2014 some may actually destroy any chances of life on the planets around them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/articles\/which-stars-could-host-alien-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about the best and worst kinds of stars for alien life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>30 years after Galileo arrived at Jupiter, its legacy lives on.<\/strong> Galileo was the first mission to orbit Jupiter, opening a new chapter in our exploration of the outer Solar System. To mark the 30th anniversary of Galileo\u2019s orbital insertion, scientists, engineers, historians, and advocates gathered at the California Institute of Technology for a special symposium: Galileo at 30. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetary.org\/planetary-radio\/galileo-at-30-how-a-mission-transformed-our-understanding-of-jupiter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This week\u2019s Planetary Radio takes you inside that celebration<\/a> to hear about how the mission reshaped planetary science.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/email-tps-logo-small.png\" alt=\"Planetary Society logo bullet\" class=\"inline align-middle h-5 w-5 float-left mr-1 mt-1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drive space innovation. Protect our planet. Support space science.<\/strong> Together in 2025, we\u2019ve championed science and technology projects that are crucial for future space exploration. It\u2019s your support that advances advocacy, education outreach, scientific innovation, and global collaboration. <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.planetary.org\/64?utm_campaign=2025yearend&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=downlink&amp;s_cid=2025yearend&amp;s_pkgsrc=downlink&amp;s_src=2025yearend&amp;s_subsrc=downlink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please make a year-end gift today to push space science even further in the year ahead!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to cozy up with a good space book? We\u2019ve got you covered. The Planetary Society\u2019s virtual book&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-242903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115752536153426838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}