May 25, 2025
Long before your first heartbeat, stars were busy forging the elements you would one day call your own.
Beneath Jupiter
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APOD published May 25, 2025. Credit: NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS; Processing & License: Gerald Eichstädt & Seán Doran. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Jupiter is stranger than we knew. NASA's Juno spacecraft has now completed over 70 swoops past Jupiter as it moves around its highly elliptical orbit. Pictured from 2017, Jupiter is seen from below where, surprisingly, the horizontal bands that cover most of the planet disappear into swirls and complex patterns. A line of white oval clouds is visible nearer to the equator. Impressive results from Juno show that Jupiter's weather phenomena can extend deep below its cloud tops, that Jupiter's center has a core that is unexpectedly large and soft, and that Jupiter's magnetic field varies greatly with location. Although Juno is scheduled to keep orbiting Jupiter further into 2025, at some time the robotic spacecraft will be maneuvered to plunge into the giant planet. Jigsaw Jumble: Astronomy Puzzle of the Day
Image credit: NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS; Processing & License: Gerald Eichstädt & Seán Doran