In 2033, after a 12-year trip across the Solar System, NASA's Lucy mission will arrive at the Patroclus─Menoetius binary system, in Jupiter's L5 cloud. On its way, Lucy will visit one asteroid and seven Jupiter Trojans, all of them primitive asteroids. Lucy's foreseen discoveries about the surface geology, color, and composition of these Trojans

We compare Venus dayside cloud top winds from Akatsuki UVI images to contemporaneous winds in the lower clouds retrieved on the night side using IRTF/SpeX 2.3 µm images. From Nov 19 to Dec 6, 2018, we obtained daily images of the night side of Venus with SpeX at 1.74, 2.3 and 5.1 µm, and spectral images cubes of the disk from 0.7 to 2.5 µm. On Nov

We present cloud-tracking results from Venus nightside images with velocity errors approaching 1 m/s (rms). The cloud-tracking scheme focuses on 1) reducing the errors associated with Venus disk registration and 2) modeling cloud feature trajectories over a succession of images. Venus disk registration errors are reduced to within 0.25 pixels with

The asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 encountered the Cb-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu between June 2018 and November 2019. The Telescopic Optical Navigation Camera (ONC-T) [1, 2] onboard Hayabusa2 observed Ryugu with 7 bandpass filters ranging in wavelength of 0.40-0.95 mm. On 8 January 2019, ONC-T observed the asteroid in the opposition geometry from ~20

Context. Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) are difficult to identify at low Galactic latitudes because of high differential extinction and heavy star crowding. The new deep near-infrared (IR) images and photometry from the VISTA Variables in the Via Láctea Extended Survey (VVVX) allow us to chart previously unexplored regions. Aims: Our long term

Context. Asteroid families are witnesses to the intense collisional evolution that occurred on the asteroid belt. The study of the physical properties of family members can provide important information about the state of differentiation of the parent body and provide insights into how these objects were formed. Several of these asteroid families