From our perspective here on Earth, come Wednesday, Aug. 14, the red planet and the great gas giant will be in their closest proximity since 2018. The duo will not appear this near again until ...

Watch: NASA video shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking 00:33. Jupiter's Great Red Spot seems to be on a cosmic diet, shrinking rapidly before our eyes.

Peering into Jupiter’s red eye. By Phil Plait. March 24, 2010 8:00 AM. Tweet Share Share Comment Tweet Share Share Comment Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is perhaps its most iconic feature.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – at 10 o’clock – has now been joined by a second ... The smaller eye, peering out from Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere, is officially known as Oval BA.

Jupiter will be visible above the southeast horizon shortly after sunset. In the San Francisco Bay Area, start looking around 9 p.m. It will traverse the southern sky and will set around 5 a.m.

The Great Red Spot—the iconic, swirling eye of Jupiter, a persistent storm that could swallow Earth whole—has more surprises yet. Scientists plumbing the planet’s depths from afar have now ...

Jupiter, which lords over our solar system like Winston lords over The Continental in John Wick, is famous for the immense super-storm swirling in its gaseous atmosphere known as the Great Red Spot.

But they will still offer informative looks into the depths of the great red eye. The first recorded instance of the Red Spot being sighted was in 1665. It’s been churning away at some 600km/h ...

It's one of the most iconic destinations in the solar system: Jupiter's Great Red Spot, moving around the planet like a wandering eye. But the famous storm is filled with plenty of mysteries. Here ...

Juno was 29,000 miles from Jupiter when it snapped this photo in May 2019. You can see the planet's windy bands, as well as the series of white storms called the String of Pearls.

NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over the Great Red Spot, a swirling storm on Jupiter, on Monday. Scientists are hoping to gain a better understanding of the storm and why it persists.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter's Great Red Spot seems to be on a cosmic diet, shrinking rapidly before our eyes. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope calculate that the spot, a giant long ...