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Jupiter Rising

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Searching too closely for the man on the moon

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All planets shine by the reflected light of the sun, and there are two reasons why Jupiter appears so bright. First of all, the thick cloud cover of Jupiter ...  
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - and explain a long-standing conundrum concerning the puzzling differences between the innermost two planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and...  
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This illustration shows Jupiter , Saturn and a case that represents Uranus and Neptune .  
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Nasa engineers will try today to reboot the $2bn Hubble Space Telescope, which has been out of commission for a fortnight after a computer failure.  
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SPACE.com - For generations, astronomers have argued over how the planets in our solar system were formed. Today, most theories assume that planets were formed in a nebula of gas and dust that condensed around what eventually became our sun, but there is still great disagreement over details...  
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Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- and ...  
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This is the sharpest "whole Jupiter" photo ever taken from Earth. It was snapped with a telescope using special adaptive optics to reduce fuzz.  
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Amazing image of Jupiter taken in infrared light on the night of Aug. 17, 2008, with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator prototype instrument mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope.  
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A 2008 image of Jupiter obtained by the Very Large Telescope in Chile shows a shift in high-level atmospheric haze compared with a 2005 image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope .  
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Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet, was named after the ruler of all the gods in Greek and Roman myths. The Romans named the ringed planet Saturn ...  
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