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Jupiter has a "big gash" - apparently!

An image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 shows the sharpest visible-light picture taken of the impact feature (dark spot) and
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An image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 shows the sharpest visible-light picture taken of the impact feature (dark spot) and "backsplash" of material from anl object that plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere. Photo: NASA

An image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 shows the sharpest visible-light picture taken of the impact feature (dark spot) and This image, released by NASA, shows the large impact on Jupiter's south polar region spotted by Anthony Wesley, inset.Image captured by Anthony Wesley on July 19, 2009 at 1554UTC from Murrumbateman Australia. Preliminary image showing a black mark in Jupiters South Polar Region which is almost certainly the result of a large impact - either an asteroid or comet.Image released by NASA showing large impact on Jupiter's south polar region captured on Monday, July 20, 2009.A large impact on the left on Jupiter's south polar region captured on July 20, 2009, by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.An amateur Australian astronomer Anthony Wesley.Visible light image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope taken May 11, 2007, shows turbulent pattern generated by two plumes on the upper left part of Jupiter.Spectacular NASA Hubble Space Telescope close up view of an electric blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles away on the giant planet Jupiter.This infrared image shows two bright plume eruptions on Jupiter obtained by the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on April 5, 2007.A montage of New Horizons images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007.Three moons cast shadows on Jupiter.New red spot appears on Jupiter in May 2008.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the most detailed images yet of the plume of atmospheric debris caused by an object that plunged into Jupiter in a rare collision with the planet.

via watoday.com.au

Honestly, who could resist a headline like "Jupiter's big gash" - but seriously, the recent upgrade to Hubble (HST) has provided new insights into, not only Jupiter, but the amazing extent of our universe.

But get a load of Jupter's gash! LOL

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