The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.

The Great Red Spot is a massive vortex within Jupiter’s atmosphere that is about 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) wide, which is similar to Earth’s diameter, according to NASA. The storm towers at a ...

At the time NASA’s Voyagers 1 and 2 sped by Jupiter on their way to Saturn and beyond, in 1979, the Great Red Spot was twice Earth’s diameter.

Jupiter, the giant of our solar system, has always fascinated scientists and skywatchers alike. But the recent images ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered strange structures in the atmosphere of Jupiter over the solar system's largest storm, the Great Red Spot, proving the planet is full of surprises.

The Red Spot is the largest known storm in the solar system, taking up one-sixth the diameter of Jupiter itself. It’s so big that it could swallow Earth into its swirling oval of clouds ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a massive atmospheric vortex, with a diameter approximately that of Earth’s. At its outer periphery, winds whip by at 450 kilometers per hour (280 miles per hour).

The first global map of the gas giant Jupiter, with its famed Great Red Spot towards the bottom left. It was created with images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, on the other hand, may date back by at least 190 years. The Great Red Spot is also much larger than its older counterpart, extending over 200 miles (350 kilometers).

The Great Red Spot is our solar system’s largest vortex (SN: 12/12/17). Located in Jupiter’s Southern Hemisphere, the windstorm’s gusts exceed 600 kilometers per hour.

Jupiter's spot has been raging for at least 200 years, and probably longer. The first reliable drawings of the anticyclone were created in the mid 19th-century, and astronomers began photographing the ...

Understanding the Great Red Spot is not easy, and it’s mostly Jupiter’s fault. A planet a thousand times as big as Earth, Jupiter consists mostly of gas.