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The red dot is a volcano on the moon's surface and the blue cloud is the volcano's emissions
Even though Jupiter and Io are thousands of lightyears away, to be able to see a volcanic eruption somewhere else besides Earth is awesome
The answer to “how far is Jupiter from Earth” can have a different answer every day of the year. The planets both travel in their elliptical orbits getting closer then farther apart. When Earth and Jupiter are at their closest to each other they are 628,743,036 million km apart. At their most distant from each other they are 928,081,020 million km apart. In astronomical units the distance varies from 4.2 AU to 6.2 AU.