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Jupiter’s new look

    • Astronomers just stitched together an unprecedented portrait of Jupiter in infrared — and realized its Great Red Spot is full of holes

  • New images of Jupiter reveal that its Great Red Spot has holes.
  • The infrared portrait of the planet also shows that lightning bolts form alongside 40-mile-high towers of turbulent clouds.
  • Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Juno spacecraft that orbits Jupiter, and the Gemini Observatory on Earth to gather some of the sharpest-ever infrared images of the planet.

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