Here's looking at you: Spooky shadow play gives Jupiter a giant eye (2024)

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Why do you think little rocky Venus can outshine giant Jupiter in the night sky? ›

3. Given this spacing, why do you think little, rocky Venus can outshine giant Jupiter in the night sky? Both are covered with highly reflective clouds, and although it is much smaller, Venus is also much, much closer.

The Eye of Jupiter is a mysterious artifact that both humans and Cylons believe holds the key to finding Earth, the last hope for humanity's survival. Contrary to expectations, the Eye is not hidden in the Temple of Five, but within the dying star of the algae planet.

This gave the giant planet the uncanny appearance of having a pupil in the center of a 10,000 mile-diameter “eye.” For a moment, Jupiter “stared” back at Hubble like a one-eyed giant Cyclops. Click on the image to view Jupiter from a distance.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot rotates counterclockwise, with a period of about 4.5 Earth days, or 11 Jovian days, as of 2008. Measuring 16,350 km (10,160 mi) in width as of 3 April 2017, the Great Red Spot is 1.3 times the diameter of Earth.

The temperature of the early solar system explains why the inner planets are rocky and the outer ones are gaseous. As the gases coalesced to form a protosun, the temperature in the solar system rose. In the inner solar system temperatures were as high as 2000 K, while in the outer solar system it was as cool as 50 K.

Brightest Objects in the Night Sky to Observe: The Moon (seriously bright!) Venus (magnitude -4.3) Jupiter (magnitude -2.2)

Jupiter appears as a bright, white disk to the naked eye. The planet's surface is covered in bands of clouds, which can be seen under very dark skies. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a massive storm that has been raging for centuries, is also visible under very dark skies.

The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the Solar System. With a diameter of 15,400 miles, it is almost twice the size of the entire Earth and one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself. The long lifetime of the Red Spot may be due to the fact that Jupiter is mainly a gaseous planet.

It's likely Jupiter's Great Red Spot has waxed and waned and come and gone over Millenia and may be one of many. It's as likely there may be more than one in 100 years than none. The great red spot is a giant storm. It has changed in the past and will change in the future.

Venus and Earth are sometimes called twins because they're pretty much about the same size. Venus is almost as big as Earth. They also formed in the same inner part of the solar system.

Why does the storm on Jupiter never end? ›

On Jupiter, storms can last a very long time because there is no land and weather is driven largely by the consistent internal heat of the planet. This is different from Earth's weather, which is fueled by solar energy heating the Earth. However, Jupiter's weather is always changing.

A subconjunctival hemorrhage (sub-con-JUNK-tih-vul HEM-er-ij) is a red spot on the white of the eye. It can look scary, but it's usually harmless, doesn't hurt, and won't affect vision. Most subconjunctival hemorrhages go away without treatment in a few days or weeks.

Jupiter was the Roman god of the sky and of thunder. As the chief Roman god, he was the king of a pantheon of dozens of deities, including Neptune, Mars, and Venus. The deity Jupiter was closely connected to the Greek deity Zeus.

Juno bore Jupiter four children: Vulcan, the disfigured blacksmith god; Mars, the god of war; Juventas, the cup-bearer to the gods and goddess of youth; and Lucina, the goddess of childbirth.

Roman God Jupiter was the son of Saturn, the god of agriculture, and Ops, the goddess of wealth and abundance. He had five other siblings who were Neptune (god of the sea), Pluto (ruler of the underworld), Vesta (goddess of the hearth), Juno (goddess of fertility) and Ceres (goddess of agriculture).

Venus is so bright because its thick clouds reflect most of the sunlight that reaches it (about 70%) back into space, and because it is the closest planet to Earth.

By contrast, Jupiter is extraordinarily reflective because it is covered with clouds. Suspended crystals of methane and ammonia reflect the sun's light very efficiently, giving Jupiter has a respectable albedo of . 51. Just over half of the light it receives from the sun bounces back into space.

Because Venus is closer to the Sun, it's always going to be apparently close to the Sun and if you can see it, it'll be just after sunset or just before sunrise. But as Jupiter's orbit is outside ours, it can be in any direction compared to the Sun.

If you have a telescope, Jupiter is easily distinguished by its moons and its bands. Whereas Venus often has a clear crescent or gibbous shape, And, of course Venus is actually considerably brighter than Jupiter, so if they are side-by-side there would be no doubt which is which.