2023 June 25 - Lightning on Jupiter

In today's image, we see a flash of lightning in the clouds of Jupiter's atmosphere as imaged by the Juno spacecraft currently in orbit around Jupiter. Lighting has been seen on several other planets and is thought to occur on all planets with an atmosphere. Juno will be studying the night side of Jupiter over the next few months and should get more chance to observe and study lightning on the giant planet. This YouTube channel is an authorized New Media Mirror Site for APOD. You can access the image and website directly at: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230625.html. I also provide lecture videos to accompany the free OpenStax Astronomy textbook (https://openstax.org/details/books/as...) on another channel. They are avilable here:    • OpenStax Video Lectures   or through this channel:    / @introductiontoastronomy   Note: All commentary is created by me and is not necessarily approved or sanctioned by APOD or NASA.