nasa has recently released a stunning image showcasing the giant gas planet jupiter but what are we actually seeing to the left of the image jupiter's bright moon a malthea can be seen shining like a star a tiny moon called adrastia is orbiting within a faint ring of dust particles that blue glow on top of jupiter is the northern aurora and at the bottom the southern aurora at the very far left a diffraction spike from jupiter's volcanic moon io is stretching across the image in the background those dim points of light are likely distant galaxies and
within jupiter's thick clouds violent storms including the famous great red spot can be seen as turbulent bright white circles why does jupiter look so blue because web images in infrared which is invisible to the human eye and so the light has been mapped onto the visible spectrum revealing an incredible version of jupiter that we have never seen before