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Glimpses of a volcanic world: New telescope images of Jupiter's moon Io rival those from spacecraft


Combining a new imaging instrument with the powerful adaptive optics capabilities of the Large Binocular Telescope, astronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter's moon Io at a resolution never before achieved with Earth-based observations.

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