Juno

noun

Ju·​no ˈjü-(ˌ)nō How to pronounce Juno (audio)
: the wife of Jupiter, queen of heaven, and goddess of light, birth, women, and marriage compare hera

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During recent flybys of the volcanic moon by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists measured Io’s gravitational effect on Juno, using the spacecraft’s tiniest wobbles to determine the moon’s mass distribution and therefore its internal structure. Robin Andrews, Wired News, 15 June 2025 In one TikTok video, the owners can be seen crawling through the gap themselves before encouraging Juno to do the same. Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025 The Trump administration proposes terminating the Juno mission, which is the only spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter, as well as the New Horizons probe that visited Pluto a decade ago and is now blazing a trail toward interstellar space. ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025 Schwarzenegger told The Hollywood Reporter that the filmmaker's son, Juno director Jason Reitman, pulled the plug on the project. Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for Juno

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Juno was before the 12th century

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“Juno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Juno. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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