Jupiter slips behind the Sun

NASA's STEREO spacecraft sees Jupiter move behind the Sun in this 30 hour animation compressed into just 11 seconds. You can see Jupiter's moons orbiting it!

Read more about it on my blog: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/22/stereo-spots-jupite...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Jupiter
• moons
• sun
• STEREO
• NASA
• astronomy

[CODYSJERNT]

thats one big SUN of a bitch

[troglodyte01]

Jupiter! Come back! Was it something we said?

[darkstorm207]

Jupiter: Yo bitches! I'm Jupiter and I'm da biggest pimp in da house! Ya hear dat, Saturn and Uranus? Ya ain't got no shiz on me!

Sun: Ahem... Problem?

[hamjambo100]

man i had a good shit today the tiolet is my best-friend..... wait how did I get here {' ?'}

[shaithesm0ck]

this is absolutely beautiful, please post more of these videos :)

[TheSpiritof1969]

How did such a fascinating bit of astronomy like this attract some really stupid comments?

[SAMMYJS991]

@Sweepingreaper4 ok, whatever Mr. wanna-be Sherlock.

[smacknrat]

@smacknrat same reason planet X would make out life unrealistic

[smacknrat]

Lagrangian stability points?

[77GSlinger]

@Sweepingreaper4 You idiot. I knew that and it was part of my criticism but too many lemmings brown thumbed my comment so now its gone. Psyence too hard LMFAO! Your mind control program is in the utter of human groping try doing a little research instead of parroting false guesses made by quacks of quackademia.

[Sweepingreaper4]

@77GSlinger LOL. Jupiter did not go that far in 30 hours. The original annimation this was taken from was 30 hours long. That animation was compressed to 30 seconds. Science too hard? Try religion.