Images of triple transit of Jupiter's moons

[Merc14]

New images taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on January 23, 2015 capture a rare occurrence as three of Jupiter’s largest moons – Europa, Callisto and Io – parade across the giant planet’s banded face. Video of event in the article

http://earthsky.org/...1b9d6-394012957

Edited February 6, 2015 by Merc14

[Dark_Grey]

Jupiter is just massive...it's crazy how huge it is

[toast]

Jupiter is just massive...it's crazy how huge it is

Indeed:

[ellapenella]

Wows.

[Astra.]

The size of Jupiter is just mind boggling in comparison to our Earth.......it's totally awesome and beautiful.

Edited February 8, 2015 by Astra00

[toast]

The size of Jupiter is just mind boggling in comparison to our Earth.......it's totally awesome and beautiful.

Yes, but if you compare the size of the Earth with the size of the Sun:

... and then the size of our Sun compared to the size of UY Scuti, the biggest star that we know of, then its getting bizar:

Edited February 8, 2015 by toast

[highdesert50]

Are we also perhaps seeing how the shadow edge sharpness is affected by the separation distance from the surface of jupiter.