A NASA spacecraft just caught a rare sighting near Jupiter

A NASA spacecraft just caught a rare sighting near Jupiter

As NASA's Juno flew around Jupiter last week, the spacecraft snapped a photo of an object before it could make a clean getaway. That clunky, bumpy thing at the far right edge of the frame is Thebe, the second largest of the gas giant planet's inner moons. The rarely photographed Jovian world was caught on camera May 1, during a close pass. (It's actually not quite clear whether Juno saw it coming or going.)Though the mission's JunoCam takes most…