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Some of the dishes comprising ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in the high desert plain of Chile. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, companion galaxies to the Milky Way, can be seen above them. Credit: ESO/ C. Malin
Countdown: Top Ten ALMA observations of 2019
Phil Plait
Dec 27, 2019
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Jupiter is still *really* weird: A new monster storm has formed around its south pole
Phil Plait
Dec 16, 2019
A thermal infrared image of Jupiter’s south pole in November 2019 reveals six cyclones surrounding a central cyclone; just two years before there were only five (the new one is to the lower right). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM
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New observations hint that Jupiter’s moon Europa erupts with water geysers (corrected)
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Nov 19, 2019
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Artist’s concept of a plume of water erupting from under the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Credit: NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI
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A JUICE-y look at Jupiter from Earth
Phil Plait
Sep 3, 2019
An image of Jupiter and its four big moons taken from Earth by the NavCam on the Jupiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE), set to launch in 2022. Credit: Airbus Defence and Space
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As a Jupiter storm erupts, ALMA peers below its clouds
Phil Plait
Aug 27, 2019
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An image of Jupiter taken at different wavelengths by ALMA shows that the planet’s zones (bright) are warmer and belts (darker) cooler. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), I. de Pater et al.; NRAO/AUI NSF, S. Dagnello
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Was Jupiter's core nearly destroyed by a massive planetary impact while it was still forming?
Phil Plait
Aug 15, 2019
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Artwork showing a massive planet impacting the protoJupiter while the solar system was still forming. Credit: K. Suda & Y. Akimoto/Mabuchi Design Office, courtesy of Astrobiology Center, Japan
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Jupiter from Hubble: Enormous, magnificent, and… fading at the edge?
Phil Plait
Aug 9, 2019
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Jupiter on June 27, 2019 as seen by Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)
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The salty ocean of Europa: Table salt found on Jupiter's moon
Phil Plait
Jun 13, 2019
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Contest: Pick names for Jupiter's new moons!
Phil Plait
Mar 21, 2019
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Orbits of twelve new moons found for Jupiter (not to scale). Some orbit the same way Jupiter spins (blue), and others the opposite way (red). Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science / Roberto Molar Candanosa
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Could the reason life on Earth exists be… Jupiter?
Elizabeth Rayne
Aug 22, 2018
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NASA image of Jupiter
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A dozen new moons for Jupiter!
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Jul 18, 2018
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A collage of Jupiter and its four biggest moons, imaged by Voyager 1. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Well, he *is* the god of lightning
Phil Plait
Jun 25, 2018
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Artwork depicting vast numbers of lightning bolts near Jupiter’s pole. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/JunoCam
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So, about that 'interstellar asteroid' announced yesterday…
Phil Plait
May 22, 2018
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Eros, a lumpy potato of an asteroid, is pretty typical of such solar system objects. Credit: NASA
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Did the Galileo spacecraft pass through a geyser plume over Europa? Maaaaaybe.
Phil Plait
May 15, 2018
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Fly over Jupiter's north pole in a 3D thermal infrared tour
Phil Plait
Apr 12, 2018
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Jupiter’s north pole looks like a thick cheesy pizza in this 3D rendering of the clouds using a thermal infrared mapper on the Juno spacecraft (deeper air is warmer and glows more brightly than cooler air higher up).
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Turn south at Jupiter
Phil Plait
Apr 6, 2018
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The Great Red Spot looms in this Juno image of Jupiter. Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
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