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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: Images of Jupiter revealed from James Webb Space Telescope

Nasa’s super cosmic spyglass has captured some incredibly detailed images of Jupiter, showing auroras and giant storms swirling around the gaseous giant.

The composite photos show views in previously unseen detail of Jupiter’s polar haze, its northern and southern lights - and the Great Red Spot, a storm large enough to envelope Earth, which looks white to the human eye due to the amount of sunlight it reflects.

The images were taken by the James Webb Telescope, which is floating in space a million miles from Earth

Elon Musk’s attempted acquisition of Twitter sees Tesla and SpaceX boss lodge legal papers to summons the social network’s co-founder Jack Dorsey.

He wants to end his bid to buy Twitter in a $44 billion deal, but Twitter is suing Musk to try and push through the deal at $54.20 per share, and it’s looking like the whole sorry saga will end up in court in October unless a settlement can be reached.

Tech & Science Daily spoke to the medical team at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University who have developed a manufacturing technique that they say cuts the time to make delicate fibre optics from several hours to just a few minutes.

The findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Optics Express.

Astronomers hope a new way of examining the phenomena called a “solar clock” could help predict violent events that impact communications here on Earth. Apple will offer customers tools and know-how to fix their newer model laptops at home, months after launching the service for iPhones. Research by the University College London Dementia Research Centre is suggesting that estimating people’s cognitive age from scans can identify multiple risk factors for a prematurely ageing brain. Heavy rains prompt a rare flower bloom in one of the world’s oldest and most arid regions, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile and endangered Philippine spotted deer are doing well after being born at a Newquay Zoo.

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