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Triple Eclipse on Jupiter

Posted by michael on from the triple-your-pleasure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of a rare triple eclipse. Three of Jupiter's three big moons--Io, Ganymede and Callisto--eclipsed large portions of face of the giant planet. Such an event happens about once a decade."

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  1. The Rare Five-Spotted Jupiter by DLWormwood · · Score: 3, Funny
    Some the language in the article makes the planet sound like an endangered speices recently discovered. I can see the journal article now...

    Obscurus Celestialis

    "A giant creature prone to residing in dark, cold habitats, the rare Five-Spotted Jupiter is identifiable in the wild by its obvious bright stripes that take on a pastel hue under infrared light. Known to attract small creatures (like the Pizza Faced Io) that fly around it, as well as moving in large circles at very high speed, the identifing features of Celestialis can only be easily seen using a high-speed camera taking rapid fire exposures..."

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  2. Those aren't moons!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So it has begun. Soon the spots will engulf the entire planet and turn it into Lucifer. Evacuate the Leonov and the Discovery.

    1. Re:Those aren't moons!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      NASA reports the the following transmission just received from Jupiter: "All these worlds are yours except- what? They voted Bush? Forget it, then. We've failed."

  3. smiley by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wonder if eclipses were viewed from the surface of Jupiter, would they make the Sun look like a one big smiley face? :o

  4. Where's a supreme being when you need one? by renehollan · · Score: 4, Funny

    What was that about a triple eclipse every 5000 years in The Fifth Element?

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