The Dailies

Word of the Day

Badinage (n., bad-in-AHZHE)

Banter. Humorous, light conversation. The kind of talk that happens on a holiday weekend, not necessarily the day everyone comes back from said holiday weekend.

Gif of the Day

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Link of the Day

Video and images of Jupiter flyby

The Juno spacecraft is currently orbiting Jupiter, taking images and measurements of the gas giant. This image is of the planet's south pole, where Earth-sized polar cyclones swirl:

A couple people have taken Juno's images and stitched them together, giving us an approximation of what a flyby would look like, and it is marvelous:

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