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Jupiter, Io, and Europa in One Photo Taken by NASA's Juno SpacecraftIt looks like Juno has caught her husband cheating again. This time with two women at once!All mythological jokes aside (let’s get real this amazing yet lowkey funny instance was just the opening for a cheesy joke), there is no cheating involved. This is merely a great feat of technological advancement and scientific prowess.NASA’s Juno is a spacecraft dedicated to orbiting Jupiter and observing the happenings within the planet and its nearby celestial neighbors. The orbiter was able to capture an image of the planet and its two moons nearby in just one photo! The two moons seem to be very far from Jupiter, as the spacecraft was flying closer to the planet at 8,000 miles (61,000 kilometers). Regardless, this rare photo is still amazing! The image was processed by scientist Andrea Luck using the data from the JunoCam instrument, which captured the photograph.Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS#space #Jupiter #Juno #Io #Europa #moons #photography #NASA

The Blue Eye of Jupiter(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill/Navaneeth Krishnan CC BY 3.0)While we've all become familiar with the Great Red Spot on the side of the Jupiter, the planet's North Pole is stormy, blue, and utterly fascinating, although we never got to see it until the Juno mission flew over it and began to sent back images in 2016. The picture above is titled Jupiter North Highly Enhanced. It took an entire team of engineers, photographers, and artists to render this new artwork of one of Jupiter's gigantic atmospheric storms from data sent back by the Juno mission. This is an example of collaborative work found at Junocam, where the missions's images are uploaded, processed, discussed, promoted, and displayed by volunteer amateur astronomers. Check out another picture of Jupiter's blue northern hemisphere processed from images at Junocam.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Surprisingly Deep: It Extends At Least 150 Miles Below the Cloud TopsNASA’s Juno spacecraft looked deep beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot to study the structure of the great storm and its significance in the origin and evolution of the gas giant, with the hopes of increasing our understanding of other gas planets.Juno’s latest measurements of the depths of the planet’s violent storms were published in Science on October 28, 2021, and its main subject is the Great Red Spot, a vortex wider than Earth. Such measurements were gathered with the use of microwave observations and gravity measurements to help scientists in characterizing the weather dynamics of Jupiter.“Jupiter’s beauty is not just skin deep, and we are seeing, for the first time, the atmosphere in three dimensions,” says Scott Bolton, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute and principal investigator of the Juno mission.Microwave observations revealed that the roots of the Great Red Spot extend to at least 240 kilometers below the cloud tops. Moreover, gravity measurements showed that the Great Red Spot has atmospheric roots extending no more than 500 kilometers below the cloud tops. Bolton said that its vortex probably fades gradually rather than having a sharp cut off.Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS, Gerald Eichstadt and Justin Cowart#Jupiter #GreatRedSpot #deep #Juno #vortex

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Shows the Intricate Beauty of Jupiter's Bands of CloudThere exists in our Solar System a planet with colorful bands that seem to be borders or zones of some sort. On this planet is a spot that stands out for its reddish color. Even without visuals, it is easy to tell that I'm talking about the fifth planet of our Solar System: Jupiter. What is behind the planet's intriguing appearance? What lies beneath its distinctive bands? The Juno spacecraft from NASA provides clues through the microwave radiometer data it acquired as it probed the gas giant. Thanks to microwave light, scientists can peer deeper into the clouds of Jupiter, and they can better understand the planet's weather and climate. Dr. Leigh Fletcher, a participating scientist for the Juno mission, describes Jupiter's bands as only "the tip of the iceberg." Lots of mysteries still surround the planet. Learn more about the findings over at the University of Leicester. (Image Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) / Wikimedia Commons) #Jupiter #Space #JunoSpacecraft #NASA

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021Winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 competition have just been announced. The annual astronomy photography competition, now in its 13th year, is hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich and drew more than 4,500 entries, including many featuring images of distant galaxies that require the use of powerful telescopes.The overall winner of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 was Shuchang Dong who took this deceptively simple photo of a solar eclipse titled "The Golden Ring" shown above. Dong took the photo in the Ali region of Tibet on June 21, 2020."This place has year-round sunny weather, but in front of the annular eclipse, I saw dark clouds all over the sky," Dong said, "We were waiting with anxious minds but we were lucky. Within a minute of the annular eclipse, the sunshine penetrated through the clouds and afterwards the Sun was sucked into the thick clouds.""This image demonstrates both the beauty and simplicity of an eclipse, but also the science behind this astronomical event," noted competition judge Emily Drabek-Maunder, "Our sun can still be seen as a ring circling the Moon as it passes in front of the Sun, and mountains on the lunar surface can be seen hiding some of this light on the lower righthand portion of the image. This is a stunning achievement!"View more of the fantastic photos of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition below.#astronomy #photography #AstronomyPhotographeroftheYear #ShuchangDong #sun #solareclipse

The Results Of Amateur Astronomer’s Attempt To Point A Telescope To Jupiter For 6 HoursAmateur astronomer Deddy Dayag has managed to capture astonishing footage of Jupiter with his equipment!For six hours, Dayag pointed his telescope to the sky in order to capture a recording of the planet. The 16-second video is composed of 452,000 frames! The hobbyist’s camera took 1000 frames per minute. After editing and compiling all the footage from his telescope’s ‘watch duty,’ the frames were condensed into the short clip below. #Space #Planets #Jupiter #Astronomy #PlanetWatching #telescope

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Flyby Animations of Ganymede and JupiterLast month on June 7, 2021, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew over Ganymede, the ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter. Then, a day later, the spacecraft made another flyby of the gas giant planet.The spacecraft beamed back fantastic images that NASA then orthographically projected onto a digital sphere to create this gorgeous and mesmerizing animated flyby.Animation: Koji Komura, Gerald Eichstädt, Mike StetsonImage: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS#Jupiter #Ganymede #JunoSpacecraft #space #NASA #SpaceExploration

Life is Possible in the Clouds of JupiterA new study by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, published in Nature Astronomy, showed that while life is not possible in Venus, it is possible in the clouds of Jupiter.Recent space exploration missions have looked for evidence of life in space by trying to identify the existence of water, but these new findings show that it's not the quantity of water that matters for viable life, but the effective concentration of water molecules or "water activity.""Our research shows that the sulphuric acid clouds in Venus have too little water for active life to exist, based on what we know of life on Earth," said John E. Hallsworth, lead author of the study. "We have also found that the conditions of water and temperature within Jupiter’s clouds could allow microbial-type life to subsist, assuming that other requirements such as nutrients are present."Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Heidi N. Becker/Koji Kuramura#water #jupiter #ExtraTerrestrialLife #venus

NASA Found Derpy Face on Jupiter, Named It "Jovey McJupiterface"NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft has captured the face of Jupiter, which NASA has lovingly named "Jovey McJupiterface."APOD explains what we're seeing:What do you see in the clouds of Jupiter? On the largest scale, circling the planet, Jupiter has alternating light zones and reddish-brown belts. Rising zone gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, usually swirls around regions of high pressure. Conversely, falling belt gas usually whirls around regions of low pressure, like cyclones and hurricanes on Earth. Belt storms can form into large and long-lasting white ovals and elongated red spots.#Jupiter #cloud #NASA #JunoSpacecraft #JunoCam #spaceHere's the full pic: