NASA ’s spacecraft snapped this stunning portrait of Jupiter during one of its closest flybys of the Gas Giant. The flyby, or perijove, was the 22nd close brush with the planet that took place on September 11 this year. NASA’s Juno performs frequent dives towards Jupiter to study the planet’s surface and takes stunning snapshots of its atmospheric features. In this mesmerising photo, the probe appears to have snapped a large black hole in the upper hemisphere of the planet.

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But there is no need to worry because the black hole is the shadow of Io – one of the four prominent Galilean moons.

The Galilean moons are the four largest satellites orbiting the Gas Giant, discovered by the astronomer Galileo Galilei in the 17th century.

Io is the innermost of the four moons, followed by Europa, Callisto and Ganymede.

From its position above Jupiter, Juno witnessed the moon slip in-between its host planet and the Sun.

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