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The Great Red Spot: 7 Strange Facts About Jupiter's 190-Year Old Storm

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is one of the most recognizable features of our solar system; it's famously larger than Earth itself serves as an identifying mark on the largest of our gas giants. Consisting ...
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking, is the biggest storm in space on a diet?

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm that has captivated scientists for centuries, has shrunk to the smallest size ever recorded. Recent observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the ...
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Data from NASA’s Cassini mission refutes prevailing theory on Jupiter’s red spot

According to a new analysis performed by NASA’s Cassini unmanned spacecraft, the big red spot on Jupiter is actually a result of simple chemicals being broken apart by sunlight in the planet’s ...
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Scientists spot unexpected cold region inside Jupiter’s northern lights

Jupiter’s northern lights are the most powerful in the solar system, but new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed surprising details about how they work. Scientists ...
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James Webb Space Telescope spies strange shapes above Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have spotted a previously unseen structure in the atmosphere above Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot. When you purchase through links on our site, ...