March 21 - Jupiter as Never Before

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Juno spacecraft gives you Jupiter as never seen before Check out the massive cyclones at Jupiter's north and south poles, on display in stunning new images from the Juno spacecraft. Jupiter's Great Red Spot gets taller as it shrinks Scientists have noticed that Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been getting smaller over time. New evidence says the storm is getting taller - and more orange - as it shrinks. Why do comets emit X-rays? Mystery solved  Researchers fired laser beams onto a plastic foil to mimic some of the conditions comets encounter as they travel through our solar system and to solve a long-standing mystery. March 21 to 23 … Moon moving through Taurus Tonight, it's near one of the Bull's most delicate features, a tiny, misty, dipper-shaped star cluster called the Pleiades.

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March 21 to 23 … Moon moving through Taurus The Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters, are even more dipper-like than the Little Dipper asterism in the northern sky.

An unusual photo of anticrepuscular rays View larger. | It looks like ordinary crepuscular rays are coming from the reflected sunlight at the base of this mountain. But that's not what's happening in this rare photo by Dennis Schoenfelder. Submit your photo to EarthSky here! Did a friend forward EarthSkyNews to you? Click here to get your own subscription!

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