{"id":19003,"date":"2017-04-06T21:18:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jumping-jupiter-hubble-space-telescope-gives-giant-planet-its-super-close-up\/"},"modified":"2017-04-06T21:18:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:18:48","slug":"jumping-jupiter-hubble-space-telescope-gives-giant-planet-its-super-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jumping-jupiter-hubble-space-telescope-gives-giant-planet-its-super-close-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping Jupiter! Hubble Space Telescope gives giant planet its super-close-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_322916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-322916\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-322916\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170406-jupiter-hubble-630x630.png\" alt=\"Jupiter as seen by Hubble\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170406-jupiter-hubble-630x630.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170406-jupiter-hubble-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170406-jupiter-hubble-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170406-jupiter-hubble-1240x1240.png 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170406-jupiter-hubble-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/170406-jupiter-hubble.png 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-322916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As Jupiter made its nearest approach to Earth in a year, the Hubble Space Telescope viewed the solar system\u2019s largest planet in all of its up-close glory. This picture was taken on April 3 from a distance of 415 million miles. (STScI \/ ESA \/ NASA \/ GSFC Photo \/ A. Simon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jupiter is as close as it\u2019ll get to Earth this year, and the Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of the opportunity with a stunning picture that shows off the giant planet\u2019s best-known spots.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomer Amy Simon of NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center arranged to have Hubble trained on the hemisphere that includes Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot and another whirling storm to the south, dubbed \u201cRed Spot Jr.\u201d You can also see white spots speckling the planet\u2019s cloud tops.<\/p>\n<p>The interplay of orbits for Jupiter and Earth brought our two planets just 415 million miles apart, which means Hubble\u2019s Wide Field Camera 3 could pick up features as small as 80 miles across.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Hubble Views Jupiter at Opposition\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AnKZvAhecPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hubble isn\u2019t the only probe eyeing Jupiter: NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter has been making passes over the planet since last July, coming as close as 2,600 miles. The most recent pass took place on March 27 and resulted in spectacular pictures of swirling cloud patterns.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be an interplanetary robot to get a glimpse of Jupiter, of course. The close approach, known as opposition, takes place every year when Jupiter is directly opposite the sun as seen from Earth. Friday\u2019s opposition is prime time for seeing our solar system\u2019s biggest world sparkling in the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>If the skies are clear, you can\u2019t miss Jupiter: It looks like a super-bright star \u2013&nbsp;rising in the east after sunset, reaching its highest point around midnight, and setting in the west as the sun is rising.<\/p>\n<p>If you look through binoculars, you just might spot Jupiter\u2019s four biggest moons as nearby specks. Check out the viewing guides from Sky &amp; Telescope and EarthSky&nbsp;for additional pointers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Jupiter made its nearest approach to Earth in a year, the Hubble Space Telescope viewed the solar system\u2019s largest planet in all of its up-close glory. This picture was taken on April 3 from a distance of 415 million miles. (STScI \/ ESA \/ NASA \/ GSFC Photo \/ A. Simon) Jupiter is as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5098,1606,4378],"class_list":["post-19003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-juno-mission","tag-jupiter","tag-skywatching"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}