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                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                                 2020 May 13
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                       Jupiter in Infrared from Gemini
   Image Credit: [3]International Gemini Observatory, [4]NOIRLab, [5]NSF,
             [6]AURA; [7]M. H. Wong ([8]UC Berkeley) & [9]Team;
          Acknowledgment: [10]Mahdi Zamani; Text: [11]Alex R. Howe
         ([12]NASA/[13]USRA, [14]Reader's History of SciFi Podcast)

   Explanation: In infrared, [15]Jupiter lights up the night. Recently,
   astronomers at the [16]Gemini North Observatory in [17]Hawaii, [18]USA,
   created some of the best [19]infrared photos of Jupiter ever taken from
   Earth's surface, [20]pictured. Gemini was able to produce such a clear
   image using a technique called [21]lucky imaging, by taking many images
   and combining only the clearest ones that, by chance, were taken when
   [22]Earth's atmosphere was the [23]most calm. Jupiter's
   [24]jack-o'-lantern-like [25]appearance is caused by the planet's
   different [26]layers of clouds. [27]Infrared light can pass through
   clouds better than [28]visible light, allowing us to see deeper, hotter
   layers of [29]Jupiter's atmosphere, while the thickest clouds appear
   dark. These pictures, together with ones from the [30]Hubble Space
   Telescope and the [31]Juno spacecraft, can tell us a lot about weather
   patterns on Jupiter, like where its [32]massive, planet-sized storms
   form.

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