Hubble Telescope spies stormy weather on Jupiter and a shrinking Great Red Spot (video)

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Hubble Telescope spies stormy weather on Jupiter and a shrinking Great Red Spot (video)


The gas giant Jupiter steals the show in these two new portraits of the planet’s opposing faces, showing the swirling storms and tumultuous cloud bands blown by winds raging at hundreds of miles per hour.

The Hubble Space Telescope took these images on Jan. 5-6, 2024. Jupiter rotates once every 10 hours, Hubble was able to image one hemisphere with the famous Great Red Spot visible, and wait for the other hemisphere to come into view before imaging that.

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