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That view though. Oval storms dot the cloudscape in this enhanced color JunoCam image of Jupiter’s south pole.

This citizen scientist-processed image was taken on Dec. 11, 2016, from an altitude of about 32,400 miles above the planet’s cloud tops.

High Above the Jovian Clouds: This image of colorful, turbulent clouds in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere was captured during my latest flyby of the gas giant planet.

The largest and most powerful hurricanes ever recorded on Earth spanned over 1,000 miles across with winds gusting up to around 200 mph. That’s wide enough to stretch across nearly all U.S. states east of Texas. But even that kind of storm is dwarfed by the Great Red Spot, a gigantic storm in Jupiter. There, gigantic means twice as wide as Earth.

With tumultuous winds peaking at about 400 mph, the Great Red Spot has been swirling wildly over Jupiter’s skies for the past 150 years—maybe even much longer than that. While people saw a big spot in Jupiter as early as they started stargazing through telescopes in the 1600s, it is still unclear whether they were looking at a different storm. Today, scientists know the Great Red Spot is there and it’s been there for a while, but they still struggle to learn what causes its swirl of reddish hues.

Image credit: NASA/JPL 

This is the of a . It’s so similar to our . Just released by the and European Research Council. The image of a gigantic black hole at the centre of the M87 — 53m light years away and 6bn times bigger than the — was compiled using data pulled from a network of eight radio telescopes, from the South Pole to Hawaii. As it is impossible to see inside a black hole because no light or electromagnetic radiation can escape its overwhelming , the international team has imaged the black hole’s outer edge, or “event horizon”. It shows a bright ring of — a ring of fire created by light particles that would normally travel in a straight line — bent into a circular path by extreme gravity before they fall into the hole. Inside the ring we see the shadow of the hole itself. Our own also has a huge black hole at its heart. The history of science will be divided by the time before the image and the time after the image. Source:ft.com

Up close and personal with Jupiter. Check out this series of enhanced-color JunoCam images from Juno’s latest science flyby of the gas giant planet.

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt/Sean Doran