Jupiter naked
Jupiter naked
Jupiter has always attracted attention. It is the largest planet in our solar system and when someone observes it through a telescope for the first time, it never forgets it: observing its Galilean moons, appreciating the transit of some of them or simply appreciating the biggest storm in the solar system next to the equatorial bands, called the Great Red Spot, are things that cause you to burn yourself in the memory.
And it has been the Hubble Space Telescope who has set his sights on the gaseous giant to show us its winds, clouds and storms. Using the WFC3 (Wide Field Camera 3) and with a total exposure time of ten hours he has shown us all his intimacies.
Image 1: Image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope taken on January 19, 2015, from 2:00 U.T. at 12:30 U.T. Credits: NASA / ESA / A. Simon / M. Wong / G Orton.
Image 2: Image of Jupiter, taken by the Hubble space telescope, but two and a half hours later than image 1, from 15:00 U.T. at 23:40 U.T. Credits: NASA / ESA / A. Simon / M. Wong / G Orton.
Behind the beautiful images there are not only some worthy combinations of two El Prado paintings; There is also science, because thanks to these strokes it has been confirmed that the great red storm continues to diminish in size. Located towards the center of the image is now about 240 km smaller than it was in 2014.
A strange structure in the form of a wave located north of the giant's equator has also been detected. And it's strange because it had only been seen once, and decades ago. The mission appreciated Voyager 2, launched in 1977. The disturbance has been found in a region replete with cyclones and anticyclones.
Get caught by the giant of our solar system and appreciate this image that only Hubble is able to offer ... for now.
This observation belongs to the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program, which will allow the Hubble Space Telescope to spend time observing the outer planets. In addition to Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus have already been observed as part of the program. Saturn will be observed later added to the series later. This will help not only to understand the atmospheres of these planets but also to know our own and that of other planets discovered around other stars.
The research has been presented in the journal Astrophysical Journal under the title "First Results from the Hubble OPAL Program: Jupiter in 2015", by Amy A. Simon et al.
The team that has carried out the research consists of Amy A. Simon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Solar System Exploration Division, United States), Michael H. Wong (University of California at Berkeley / Astronomy Department, United States), and Glenn S. Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology, United States).
Images 1 and 2 were taken by the WFC3 instrument aboard Hubble with the following filters:
- Optical band filter [OIII] (502 nm)
- U-band ultraviolet filter (395 nm)
- Optical filter in R-band (631 nm)
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