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  • You’ve Never Seen Jupiter Look So Much Like Cotton Candy

    You’ve Never Seen Jupiter Look So Much Like Cotton Candy

    You probably know Jupiter, the rotund fifth planet from the Sun, as orange and tan with a big red splotch. But the Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged the gas giant in ultraviolet light, giving the world a very different look. At UV wavelengths, Jupiter’s clouds appear in bright pinks, blues, and purple hues. The image is…