Comments on: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

By: Jupiter in Motion

Jupiter in Motion — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:10:52 +0000

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By: Claire C Smith

Claire C Smith — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:05:30 +0000

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By: Jupiter in Motion « Time-Lapse Blog

Jupiter in Motion « Time-Lapse Blog — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:08:06 +0000

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By: The life of a star | The sky this month

The life of a star | The sky this month — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:15:28 +0000

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By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:25:41 +0000

Jim Johnson (17) said:

Not to nit-pick too much, but… wouldn’t “The bringer of joviality” have been more appropriate? Or was that the point of the joke in the first place?

I think you’ve got that backwards.

The word “jovial” means what it does because of Jupiter’s (Jove’s) association with jollity.

By: Hey Zeus! - Religious Education Forum

Hey Zeus! - Religious Education Forum — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:22:51 +0000

[...] else think we should have a thread of cool kick-*** scientific stuff? I just found this one today: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine I remember the first time I seen this bad boy walking across upstate NY. This guy had a Cassegrain [...]

By: raceface

raceface — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:59:27 +0000

I think we should abandon stupid manned spacecraft to boring places like moon and mars and focus on robotic spacecraft to go get a closer look at this beauty right here! jupiter is clearly the most awesome planet – just look at it! my mind is so many degrees of blown right now.

By: Amateur astrophotographery animation of Jupiter | tny3zc5

Amateur astrophotographery animation of Jupiter | tny3zc5 — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:36:00 +0000

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By: Scottie Davis

Scottie Davis — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:13:40 +0000

Jupiter is an awesome planet!
I only we had a 100m IR space telescope, we could find more and would be awesome too.

By: Ante Vukorepa

Ante Vukorepa — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 20:42:59 +0000

“Look at the detail: the Great Red Spot, the string of brownish storms just above and trailing behind it, the white ovals, the whorls and streamers of air separating the horizontal banding.”

Don’t forget the monoliths!
You can even see them grouping if you freeze frame the video!