Jupiter

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photo of Jupiter taken by Voyager 1

Planets of Our Solar System

crescent view of Jupiter

View Jupiter's images captured from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard the New Horizons spacecraft

computer-generated composite of Jupiter

computer-generated visualization of Jupiter's equatorial cloud layers

false-colour mosaic of Jupiter's northern hemisphere

false-colour mosaic of the Great Red Spot

Jupiter: south pole

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7 Important Dates in Jupiter History

Jupiter (planet, space, outer space, planetary, solar system).

5 Mysteries of Jupiter That Juno Might Solve

Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles

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Pluto. The Changing Faces of Pluto. Most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003.

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Giant young star is growing by 2 Jupiter masses every year, new study shows • May 16, 2025, 11:06 PM ET (Space)

Bright auroras on Jupiter are captured by Webb Space Telescope • May 12, 2025, 12:37 PM ET (AP)

NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin • Apr. 23, 2025, 11:17 AM ET (AP)

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photo of Jupiter taken by Voyager 1

crescent view of Jupiter

computer-generated composite of Jupiter

computer-generated visualization of Jupiter's equatorial cloud layers

false-colour mosaic of Jupiter's northern hemisphere

false-colour mosaic of the Great Red Spot

Jupiter: south pole

Jupiter's Great Red Spot

View Jupiter's images captured from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard the New Horizons spacecraft

Observe Jupiter as viewed from one of its moons lo

Know about the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa and the possibility of life beneath it

Learn about Io, Jupiter's moon with the most active volcanoes in the solar system

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Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles

Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?