#space photos

A new photo from Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft has captured what appears to be a face on a comet in deep space. Here’s more about the “face.”

Swirls of Jupiter

Jupiter is a very stormy, turbulent, violent planet. The planet completes a day (or one complete rotation) within roughly 10 hours, which creates massive winds, producing these swirls, and violent storms. The fast rotation coupled with the fact that the planet is nothing but gas greatly multiplies the Coriolis effect. Earth too has a Coriolis effect, this creates the characteristic hurricane shapes and also contributes to the fact that storms will spin the opposite direction in different hemispheres. Luckily, our rotation is slower - our storms are less frequent and less violent than they would be if our days were shorter.

The above images come from the recent Juno mission by NASA.

NGC 474: See that odd formation? No one really has an answer for this galaxy and why it looks so weird. Perhaps someone else on the science side of tumblr can figure out what NASA can’t.