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Beautiful Giant
Featured on May 7, 2018
Stripes, belts, and the Great Red Spot decorate Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, in this natural-color view from Hubble Space Telescope. Jupiter and Earth are at their closest for the year in May, when Jupiter will shine as the third-brightest object in the night sky (only Venus and the Moon outperform it). Jupiter spans about 88,000 miles, and its Great Red Spot is as wide as Earth. [NASA/ESA/A. Simon (GSFC)]
