NASA’s Juno mission has delivered yet another spectacular image of Jupiter – this time showing cyclones at its south pole forming a pentagon shape. The picture was published along with four research papers in Nature, offering new insights into the polar and interior structure of the giant gas planet. Andrew Coates talks us through the surprising results.

Today is International Women’s Day. But while the aim is gender equality, we must also ensure that women are treated equally irrespective of their race and ethnicity, says Nilufar Ahmed. Meanwhile, Flora Derounian celebrates the Italian women rice weeders who overcame the odds to defeat fascism, and Stacy Gillis suggests five books about women, by women that challenge the status quo and fly in the face of the same old gender stereotypes.

Charles I believed in the divine right of kings – and he also believed in the right of a monarch of his standing to own the finest collection of art in the world. Art historian Breeze Barrington tells the story of how the doomed king’s love of fine paintings and sculptures nearly bankrupted his country and alienated his people.

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