Image: These are two views of Jupiter’s Little Red Spot taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in April 2006. The left image is a close-up view. In the right image, a box has been added to show the ...

NASA Hubble observations from late 2023 to early 2024 document measurable size, shape, and motion changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot over one oscillation cycle.

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—a rotating storm that is so large it could swallow Earth—isn’t what it used to be. Research has revealed that the crimson-hued spot visible today is, on average, larger than ...

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For three months, the Hubble Space Telescope stared at the famous blemish on Jupiter. What the veteran spacecraft found surprised NASA scientists. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) is “jiggling like a ...

In the 1660s, Italian astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini discovered something while looking at the planet Jupiter: a massive spot now known as the planet’s signature. Known as the Great Red Spot or ...

A series of images show the repeated flaking of red clouds inside Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, starting most dominantly on the east side of the red vortex and later breaking off entirely. (Courtesy of ...

For being the largest planet in the Solar System, there's a lot we don't know about Jupiter. The fifth planet is primarily made up of gas and liquid and has a violent atmosphere, but what’s going on ...

The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, the largest known storm in the solar system, is apparently shifting shapes, according to a recent report. A 90-day study, from December to March, of Jupiter using the ...

In 1665, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini observed a massive storm raging on Jupiter. It became known as the Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds that’s almost twice as wide as Earth. New ...