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Jupiter's Weather

Scientists are combining high resolution Hubble telescope images of Jupiter with near-infrared images taken from the Gemini Observatory and data from NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter to study thunderstorms and other weather phenomena on Jupiter!

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Moon Map

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The USGS has completed the first Unified Geologic Map of The Moon using Apollo era maps combined with modern satellite data.

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Hubble Birthday Photos

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You can now see a photo that Hubble snapped on your birthday! Since Found This Week is 4 years old today, above is today's birthday image from Hubble.

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Sun Plasma

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Researchers at the University of Central Lanchashire (UCLan) released the highest-ever resolution images of the sun, taken using NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C). The images show magentic strands of million-degree 500km wide plasma on the sun! Check out their Flickr gallery here.

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Liveview of Earth from the ISS

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NASA stream a liveview of Earth from the International Space Station on YouTube!

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Mars Valles Marineris Canyons

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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a fantastic shot of the canyons of Valles Marineris on Mars using the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera.

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Earth's New Moon

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The Minor Planet Center has confirmed that the Earth has acquired a temporary mini-moon, designation 2020 CD3, which orbits every 47 days and is the size of a car.

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The Comet

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Motion Designer Christian Stangl and Composer Wolfgang Stangl used the 400,000 images released by the ESA of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the Rosetta spacecraft to make a short film. The footage uses digitally enhanced real footage from the probe.

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LightSail2 Flies!

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LightSail2 has successfully demonstrated that space flight by light is possible! LightSail2 demonstrated controlled solar sailing in a CubeSat by changing the spacecraft's orbit using only the light pressure of the Sun.

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The Solar System As Gaeilge

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In a great tweet thread this week, artists Ciaran Duffy released a set of illustrated the solar system and planets in Irish. You can buy the range of beautiful prints here.

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