- 4213 - JUPITER - gets photo bombed? Jupiter looks bizarre in Hubble's new ultraviolet image. This ultra-cool image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a color composite picture of Jupiter seen in ultraviolet, which reveals different features in Jupiter’s atmosphere. One feature that stands out is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — it is blue in this image!
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- This Great Red Spot
is a giant storm that looks unusually dark in ultraviolet because high-altitude
hazes over the huge storm absorb UV photons before they are reflected back to
Earth. The data used to create this
ultraviolet image is part of a Hubble proposal that looked at Jupiter’s
superstorm systems. The researchers plan to map deep water clouds using the
Hubble data to define 3D cloud structures in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
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- Ultraviolet light
are short, high-energy wavelengths of light beyond what the human eye can see.
Ultraviolet light reveals phenomena such as light from the hottest and youngest
stars which are usually hidden in the dust of local galaxies; it can also
reveal the composition, densities, and temperatures of the material between
stars.
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- A multi-wavelength
observation in ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared light of Jupiter obtained by
the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020 is giving researchers an
entirely new view of the giant planet.
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- Hubble’s
near-infrared imaging, combined with ultraviolet views, provides a unique
panchromatic look that offers insights into the altitude and distribution of
the planet’s haze and particles. This complements Hubble’s visible-light
pictures that show the ever-changing cloud patterns.
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- Since the human
eye cannot detect ultraviolet light, colors in the visible light spectrum are
assigned to the images, each taken with a different ultraviolet filter.
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- This image was
released in honor of Jupiter reaching both perigee and opposition. Perigee
means when Jupiter reached its closest point to Earth this year, which occurred
on November 1, 2023. The distance between the Earth and Jupiter at that time
was 370,000,000 miles.
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- Opposition is when
another object — Jupiter in this case – is opposite the Sun in our sky. That
means Earth comes between the Sun and Jupiter. This happened on of November 2,
2023.
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- An object’s
opposition also usually means it’s a great time to observe it from Earth. If
you look to the east in the evenings, you’ll see a very bright object – that’s Jupiter.
A look even through a small telescope or binoculars will reveal the four
largest moons of Jupiter. Three of those moons are bigger than Earth’s Moon,
and one of them, named Ganymede, is the largest moon in the Solar System.
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