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====== NASA Image of the Day ====== | ====== NASA Image of the Day ====== | ||
- | Date: **Sun 28th June, 2020**\\ | + | Date: **Wed 8th May, 2024**\\ |
- | Title: **Europa and Jupiter from Voyager 1** | + | Title: **Visualization: |
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- | What are those spots on Jupiter? Largest | + | What would it look like to circle a black hole? If the black hole was surrounded by a swirling disk of glowing |
- | It is not yet known why this Great Spot is red. The spot toward | + | Surrounding |
- | Sixteen frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979 were recently reprocessed and merged to create | + | Toward the left, parts of the large main image of the disk appear brighter as they move toward you. As the video continues, you loop over the black hole, soon looking down from the top, then passing through the disk plane on the far side, then returning to your original vantage point. The accretion disk does some interesting image inversions -- but never appears flat. Visualizations such as this are particularly relevant today as black holes are being imaged in unprecedented detail by the Event Horizon Telescope. |
- | About 43 years ago, Voyager 1 launched from Earth and started one of the greatest explorations of the Solar System ever. | + | |
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- | Free Download: Voyager Posters | + | //If you leave a comment below, please enter the date when referring to images. I can go back and fetch images for a specific date if you request it.// |
- | [[https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/ | + | |
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- | Click the image for a larger view (opens in a new tab) | + | |
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