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Astronomers say that the planet Jupiter has likely been struck by a comet. Pictures taken early on Monday morning by NASA‘s Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii reveal a dark scar in Jupiter’s atmosphere near the south pole of the planet. The images also show bright upwelling particles in the atmosphere, detected in near-infrared wavelengths. “We [...]



