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Jupiter’s red spot is shrinking fast and it’s getting weird

Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they knew about giant-planet weather. The Great Red Spot, once a planetary icon ...
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What did scientists find on Jupiter, and why is it so strange?

Jupiter is a massive, terrifying planet. Despite being studied for centuries and even visited by nine space probes in the ...
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shapeshifting in Ways ‘Never Identified Before’

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 ...
Popular Science

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O

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The largest storm in our solar system is moving unexpectedly, scientists say

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. New observations of ...
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Moves Like the Solar System’s Biggest Kickball

A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed how much the giant storm changed shape as it traveled within the planet’s atmosphere. By Robin George Andrews The Great Red Spot ...

Jupiter's 'Common Knowledge' Has Been Overturned: The True Face Seen by the Juno Probe and the Webb Telescope

IntroductionIt was once thought that Jupiter had a solid rocky core at its center. However, gravity measurements from the ...
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot wiggles like gelatin

Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot, an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But Hubble’s new observations of the famous red storm reveal the ...
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Acting Very Strangely, Puzzling Scientists

Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot (GRS) is large enough to swallow the entire Earth — and as new imagery from Hubble suggests, it’s a lot weirder than previously thought. Between December 2023 and March 2024, ...
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Moving In a ‘Very Unexpected’ Way, Bewildering Astronomers

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 ...
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot Makes the Planet Hot

Jupiter and its moon Ganymede in 2007. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona) One of Jupiter's most baffling mysteries might be solved at last. The problem: Jupiter's upper ...