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© NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran

New views of

Jupiter’s storms

This impressive enhanced-colour image of the king of the Solar
System reveals bands of light and dark clouds, created by citizen
scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran using data from
the JunoCam imager on board NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Three
of the white oval storms known as the ‘String of Pearls’ can be
seen near the top of the image, while alternating light and dark
atmospheric bands cross the planetary giant’s face. These belts
rage around Jupiter at hundreds of kilometres (miles) per hour
and represent regions where gas is rising and sinking.
Juno also achieved its first ever close-up of Jupiter’s
trademark Great Red Spot (right) during its seventh close
approach. The spacecraft was about 9,866 kilometres (6,130
miles) from the tops of the clouds of the planet.

Hubble

spots the

Lynx’s

barred spiral

The Hubble Space Telescope captured
this stunning view of the barred
spiral NGC 2500, which lies some 30
million light years away in the Lynx
constellation, picking out its wispy
arms that swirl out from its bright,
elongated core.
Roughly two-thirds of the spiral
galaxy family – of which the Milky Way
is a member – are barred, meaning
that they possess straight bars that
© NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI), and the CLASH team found, and where material is funnelled © NESA/Hubble/NASA
cut through their centres. It is in these
cosmic structures where glowing
nurseries of newborn stars can be

towards the active core. As evident in
this image, NGC 2500 is still actively
forming new stellar members.

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