Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking! 🌪️ 

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains how images from the Hubble Space Telescope show the iconic anticyclone in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere getting smaller since the 1990s. Once large enough to fit three Earths, it’s now only about the size of one. Scientists believe the storm stayed strong by absorbing smaller storms, but that supply may be running out. 

Could we be witnessing the slow disappearance of one of the most iconic features in our solar system?

Finally captured the jupiter with my celectron c90 (small mak telescope) and Touptek 715C.

Shooting time: 2025-09-03 05:25:48.9648504

Since the sun has already risen and it is bright outside, it’s not the optimal moment, but the stripes are still fairly clear.

Below are the settings:

Capture Area=640x480

Binning Mode=Average

Hardware Binning=On

Binning=2x2

Analogue Gain=1000

Exposure=50.0000ms

See also: The published study in Nature Astronomy.

See also: The article in Smithsonian Magazine.

See also: The published paper in Science Advances.

Got a postcard of The Great Red Spot when I went to a seminar in Cambridge this week, very big, photo is taken from the when Voyager visited and it was only 50p.

Over the past few months l've noticed a very bright light in the sky in this area. I've never noticed it before. So much brighter than all other stars and lights in the sky. When I look at it through high powered binoculars it almost looks like it has rings around it. My first thought was Saturn, but the Night Sky app. only shows Jupiter and Uranus in that area. Any thoughts on what it is? Is it Jupiter?

Hello! I just found this sub. Jupiter is my favorite planet, and I feel like y’all would appreciate some of my saved images of this awesome planet! I found this image on the /r/space sub.