Space Photos: The Most Amazing Images This Week!

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By Doris Elin Urrutia 21 hours ago

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Space Photos: The Most Amazing Images This Week!
By Doris Elin Urrutia 21 hours ago



Thick clouds of interstellar dust and gas permeate the star forming region RCW 36, also known as Gum 20, in this deep-space image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Located about 2,300 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Vela, the Sails, RCW 36 is part of a much larger star formation complex, known as the Vela Molecular Ridge. Astronomers used an instrument on VLT called the Focal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph (FORS) to capture this image of RCW 36, which is in some parts so thick with dust and gas that background light cannot pass through. These dark regions are the richest with star formation.
(Image: © ESO)

NASA's Juno spacecraft spots a new Texas-sized storm on Jupiter, a volcano erupts in the Pacific Ocean and thick clouds of dust are seen in the constellation Vela. These are just some of the top photos this week from Space.com.

Texas-sized Jovian Cyclone



NASA's Juno spacecraft spotted a new storm brewing on the cloudy tops of Jupiter's atmosphere. The probe saw the small storm, visible at the bottom right of this infrared image taken on Nov. 4, 2019, during its 23rd pass of the gas giant planet. This smaller storm (which is about the size of Texas) joins a family of six cyclones in Jupiter's south pole region.

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[JDC]

1. Very cool.

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