Amazon’s original Echo Spot had most of the features of its Echo Show smart displays. The 2024 Echo Spot ($79.99) is more of a successor to the discontinued Echo Dot With Clock. The smart speaker offers full Alexa voice functionality, displays useful information like the time and weather on a small screen, and even supports … Read more
Amazon has breathed new life into the Echo Spot: a bedside table with Alexa and a colorful display that shows the weather forecast, what songs or podcasts are playing, the latest news and, of course, the time. Echo Spot can display the time, forecast, or currently playing songs, audiobooks, and podcasts through its enhanced 1.73” … Read more
New observations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have revealed that the planet’s atmosphere above and around the infamous storm is surprisingly interesting and active. This image shows the region Webb observed – first the location on a NIRCam image of the entire planet (left), and then the region itself (right), imaged by Webb’s Near-InfraRed Spectrograph … Read more
The Milky Way isn’t the only galaxy in its little corner of the universe. Small, faint dwarf galaxies, many of which contain only a thousand stars, are speeding around our cosmic neighborhood on long, graceful circuits. It’s unclear exactly how many there are, but there should be many more than the 60 or so we’ve … Read more
9 Using the joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope, a group of scientists have discovered a variety of never-before-seen features in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. The features were found in the atmospheric region above the iconic Great Red Spot, a high-pressure area in Jupiter’s atmosphere that creates … Read more
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered previously unseen structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These strange features appear to be caused by powerful atmospheric gravitational waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice the size of Earth, and has been … Read more
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found previously invisible structures and activity in Jupiter’s atmosphere above the Great Red Spot. These strange features appear to be caused by powerful atmospheric gravitational waves. The Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the solar system, twice the size of Earth, and has been … Read more
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a major storm that has persisted for at least 190 years. Enhanced image by Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Researchers may have solved the mystery of the Great Red Spot, a massive storm swirling above Jupiter’s surface. Astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini … Read more
A rare nova explosion will soon be visible in Earth’s night sky, according to NASA officials. The event, which could happen anytime between now and September, is causing a stir within the astronomy community as both professional and amateur astronomers will be able to see the explosion. “We’re certainly seeing a lot of excitement as … Read more
Enlarge / Enhanced Juno image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in 2018. It is probably not the same one Cassini observed in the 17th century. The planet Jupiter is best known for its so-called Great Red Spot, a swirling vortex in the gas giant’s atmosphere that has existed since 1831. But how it originated and … Read more