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Very high resolution indeed (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 38 points 4 weeks ago

And to think, 50 years ago scientists had no idea there were ducks on Jupiter.

[-] Blade9732@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Better yet, 24 billion pound ducks that are each about 4,000 miles long. And no, I didn't do the math for the size of the corkscrew genitalia.

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 weeks ago

I don't know, it looks kinda swampy to me...

[-] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

Swamp Gas Giant

[-] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago
[-] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 4 weeks ago

Looks real to me, but I wasn't there when the ducks were named

[-] kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Legit. You can trust me because I checked it personally 🤪

[-] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

ah, thank you, sorry for my mistrust, I thought it didn't look like Jupiter

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

No it’s real Jupiter means duck in my language

[-] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

oh that makes a lot of sense

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 4 weeks ago

Woah, what will they think of next?

(Off the top of my head, I would surmise Saturn.)

[-] Zier@fedia.io 4 points 4 weeks ago

What a Loon!

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 4 weeks ago

Recognize that anywhere. From Pink Floyd's P.U.L.S.E. live show.

[-] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago
[-] kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Blahaj.zone?

[-] JayFonduh@lemmy.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Who took this picture exactly? Me as a child?

[-] sem 1 points 4 weeks ago

Mallards are aliens confirmed

this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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