Jupiter Meets Mars !
A meteor streaks across the night sky above Leeberg hill during the Perseid meteor shower on August 13, 2023 in Grossmugl, Austria.
Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader/Getty Images
Jupiter meets Mars !
Jupiter and Mars will be separated by just a third of a degree on Aug. 14.
Image credit: Haitong Yu
Europa !
In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered compelling evidence of carbon dioxide on Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons.
Image: © Europa
James Webb Telescope's stunning image of Jupiter !
NASA scientists have also released new shots of the solar system's biggest planet, describing the results as "quite incredible".
The James Webb Telescope took the photos back in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
One wide-field picture is particularly dramatic, showing the faint rings around the planet, as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies.
"We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all quite incredible," said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.
"We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest," she added in a statement.
The infrared images were artificially coloured in blue, white, green, yellow, and orange, according to the US-French research team, to make the features stand out.
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Jupiter and its Moon IO !
Credit: NASA
Europe Satellite
From the ocean of ice on the Europe satellite (in the foreground), we can see Jupiter and Io (between the two).
© Walter B. Myers Bridgeman Images
The Clearest Image of Jupiter ever taken!
Courtesy: Curiosity
Jupiter by ‘Juno’ spacecraft in 2018
NASA / SWRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstadt / Sean Doran
Jupiter captured by James Webb telescope !
The Webb telescope is an international collaboration between the US space agency NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.
The composite images were taken with the observatory’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and were artificially coloured because infrared light is not visible to the human eye.
NASA's Juno spacecraft captures Jupiter with two of its large moons, Io (on left) and Europa (on right).
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Image Processing By AndreaLuck CC BY
NASA's Juno spacecraft recently captured images of Jupiter and two of its moons, Io and Europa.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Image Processing By AndreaLuck CC BY
This artist's conception illustrates a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This illustration shows NASA’s Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter,
Image credit: Southwest Research Institute.
Water vapor plumes on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa,
Image credit: David Ladd, USRA & NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Europa’s Surface
This enhanced-color view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Newer fractures crosscut older ones, and several wide, dark bands are visible where the surface has spread apart in the past.
The scene also contains several regions of "chaos terrain," where the smooth surface has been disrupted into jumbled blocks of material.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
"Another Cloudy Day on Jupiter" by Sergio Díaz Ruiz
Astronomy Photographer of the Year
The Milky Ring!
An expanse of cosmic dust, stars and nebulae along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy form a magnificent ring in this image.
The panorama covers the entire galaxy visible from planet Earth. It is an ambitious 360° mosaic that took the photographer two years to complete.
Northern hemisphere sites in China and southern hemisphere sites in New Zealand were used to collect the image data. Like a glowing jewel set in the Milky Way ring, the bulge of the galactic centre is at the very top.
The bright planet Jupiter is the beacon just above the central bulge and to the left of the red giant star Antares. Along the plane and almost 180° from the galactic centre at the bottom of the ring is the area around Orion.
The ring of the Milky Way encompasses two notable galaxies in the southern skies, the Magellanic Clouds.
Photographed at Sichuan, Qinghai, China, and Lake Pukaki, New Zealand, January to February 2020 and August 2020–January 2021.
Photo by Zhong Wu/Astronomy Photographer of the Year