Jupiter

I brought my telescope out last night, not expecting much.  I pointed it toward a bright star above the eastern horizon and slowly brought it into focus, and this is what I saw.  It's actually Jupiter with it's four largest moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.  At first it just showed up as a white dot, but as I perfected the focus and trained my eyes, I could actually start to make out the actual ripples in the storms swirling around in the Jupiter atmosphere.  It gave me chills.  It's amazing to me that we, as a human species have actually sent a probe that punctured the atmosphere of that little white dot.  Even more amazing is that one of those four moons, Europa is known to have frozen water, which could allow it to harbor life.  So in theory, some creature could have been staring right back at me (given that the probability of life on Europa only lends to micro-organisms, this is extremely far-fetched).  I love astronomy.