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Spectacular new images of Jupiter (Original Post)
Duppers
Aug 2022
OP
Jupiter has no solid surface! Crazy! It's a gas giant (a star that never formed).
Cattledog
Aug 2022
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BeyondGeography
(40,801 posts)1. Looking forward to the coffee table book
Wow.
Torchlight
(6,281 posts)2. After 56 years, the universe still has the mystery to
surprise me and fill me with awe every time I think about it, however lightly. Sagan's tv series bit me hard my freshman year in hs, and may have been that first step for me in finally seeing that not everything in the natural world is centered around humans (however often we try to convince ourselves otherwise).
Cattledog
(6,571 posts)3. Jupiter has no solid surface! Crazy! It's a gas giant (a star that never formed).
Just learned that from WaPo article.
Bayard
(28,476 posts)4. "Webb could unlock mysteries,"
As far back as 100 million years after the Big Bang."
This instrument is truly remarkable.