Illustrations by the 17th-century astronomer Cassini (a-c), compared with Jupiter's current Great Red Spot as captured by Eric Sussenbach in 2023. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Curiously, earlier astronomers, like Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665, also observed a colossal red storm at the same latitude on Jupiter — raising the possibility that they're actually the ...

In 1665, Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini observed a giant dark spot on Jupiter, which he called the "Permanent Spot." (English scientist Robert Hooke might've discovered it a year earlier ...

The Cassini mission is scheduled to end in early September. The paper on Jupiter's Europa moon, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, contains the new Hubble Space Telescope findings.