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Mystery Spot on Jupiter Baffles Astronomers

Posted by Hemos on from the the-black-big-red-spot dept.

seanmeister writes "From Space.com: "Astronomers have spotted a strange, obvious and inexplicable black spot near the equator of Jupiter. A picture of the object is circling this planet electronically as researchers scratch their heads about what they've found. A second image, taken on another day by a different photographer, contains a similar looking spot. As of early today, the second image had deepened the mystery. Some astronomers were at first puzzled over whether the two photos show the same thing or not. As it turns out, they do not." I, for one, welcome our new monolith overlords!"

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  1. OH MY GOD, THE SPOT HAS EXPANDED by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and emcompassed Space.com.

    God. Damn. It.

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    THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
  2. The administrators at NASA are saying... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Oh my god, it's full of money!" $_$

  3. spots on Jupiter? by joshsnow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, clearly, it's ET, isn't it? Those spots are his eyes. Every time he blinks, the spots vanish.

    Who knows, he and Drew Barrymore may be making sweet ..er...music out there. Let's hope ET has his cell phone with him - with all this attention, things could get out of hand...