The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has watched Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) oscillating, as though it were being squeezed in and out roughly every 90 days. Why this huge anticyclone, which has ...

Pepperoni in a spoon? This infrared-enhanced photo taken on May 19 shows that the swirl connecting the Great Red Spot to the South Equatorial Belt (dark belt above and left of the GRS) contains red ...

High-resolution images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have revealed that it’s not as stable as we thought. Instead, the Spot is squeezing in and out, with NASA ...

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was first discovered in 1665 by astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and both scientists and the public have been awe-stricken by its beauty and the processes that created it ...

Using Hubble Space Telescope data spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024) when the giant planet Jupiter ranged from 391 million to 512 million miles from the Sun, ...

Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has swirled within the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. But astronomers have debated just how old the vortex ...

Data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds Other revelations from the ...

A massive storm has been raging on Jupiter for centuries, and, for the most part, has appeared very serious. A new series of detailed images, however, revealed that the famous red cyclone can get a ...

Jupiter’s signature feature — its Great Red Spot — might not be the same dark spot seen on the giant planet more than three centuries ago. From 1665 to 1713, astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini and ...

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has watched Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) oscillating, as though it were being squeezed in and out roughly every 90 days. Why this huge anticyclone, which has ...