In the images, it is possible to observe strong winds, moons, auroras, other galaxies and storms such as the Great Red Spot, which appears in the lower right corner similar to a white dot. But there's nothing to it, you know? This storm is big enough to swallow the Earth.
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“We really didn't expect it to be this good, to be honest,” said the planetary astronomer leading the observations, Imke de Pater, a professor at the University of California.
The records of Jupiter were produced by the observatory's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which has three infrared filters responsible for showing the details of the planet. Because infrared light is invisible to human eyes, scientists had to translate the data into the visible color spectrum.
According to NASA, the person responsible for translating the data was scientist Judy Shmidt, who also had the collaboration of other scientists.
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Ten years ago, Shmidt discovered her passion for imaging the universe after being one of the finalists in a European Space Agency (ESA) competition.
Since then, she has been working on Hubble and other telescope data as a hobby. “I can’t stop,” she said. “I could spend hours and hours every day.”
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