Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.<\/p>\n
Good morning. It\u2019s February 6, and today\u2019s image reveals the Jovian moon Io in a revelatory new light.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend the operators of NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft released a new batch of images showcasing a February 3 flyby of Io, the volcanically active moon orbiting Jupiter. Io, if you didn\u2019t know, is the most volcanically active world known to humans.<\/p>\n
As part of its mission to closely study Jupiter, Juno has also been making periodic flybys of some of the gas giant\u2019s more intriguing moons. NASA then invites members of the public to process the raw images to tease out details.<\/p>\n
Bj\u00f6rn J\u00f3nsson has done just that for the most recent flyby of Io, producing the amazing image in this post. Of his work, J\u00f3nsson says, \u201cThe small, bright features are specular reflections from features that normally appear dark (volcanic glass?). A plume is visible at lower right, it\u2019s been brightened rel to other parts of the image & is heavily processed. North is up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plume is magical.<\/p>\n
Source: Bj\u00f6rn J\u00f3nsson<\/p>\n
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