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Jupiter from afar

Jupiter as seen by Juno, its Great Red Spot visible at right.
Jupiter as seen by Juno, its Great Red Spot visible at right. Image: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.

Jupiter is a stunner; we’ve known this for years. But Juno offers sharper, closer-up images of our local gas giant than other telescopes, in space or on the ground (though the Webb Space Telescope has captured its fair share of Jupiter’s beauty.)