Night Sky IV
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a huge storm known to have raged for 150 years. The Spot is the size of the earth. The picture is from a recent Sky at Night magazine which I got from Anne as a Christmas present. The magazine is a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Telescope without which such a beautiful sight would be inaccessible to us. Hubble has literally brought space down to earth for us all, provided an incentive for amateur astronomers like myself and so embellished astronomy magazines they are suitable as Christmas presents! A recent Sky at Night magazine celebrates thirty years of discovery by the Hubble Telescope. Through Hubble, confirmed by a 2015 fly past, we lost a planet. Pluto was discovered in 1930 and named ninth planet from the Sun. Discovery of similarly sized objects in the Kuiper belt led to its renaming as a ‘dwarf planet’. Conversely Hubble helped reveal a major component of the universe. ‘Dark matter’ accounts for around 85% of