Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking. The biggest windstorm in the solar system has been slowly declining for decades, but some new research may explain why.

The shrinking of the Great Red Spot is a relatively recent phenomenon that has sparked renewed interest in this celestial wonder.

Back to Article List Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is slowly shrinking The gas giant's 300-year-old cyclone changes color over time, and it seems to be getting rounder and taller as it slowly fades away.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm so big that it could swallow Earth READ MORE: True age of Jupiter's Great Red Spot REVEALED It's a swirling mass of crimson clouds, more than 8,000 ...

The Great Red Spot has been shrinking since it was spotted in the 1800s. It’s currently 1.1 times as wide as Earth —about the size of the long-lost Permanent Spot.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.

[Related: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps shrinking.] The team has been watching the GRS continue to shrink since the OPAL program began 10 years ago.

Jupiter’s striking Great Red Spot has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, they think they know just how old it is and how the cyclone formed in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking, and has been for decades. The earliest observations of a massive, red spot on the face of Jupiter date back as far as the 1600s.

It's a swirling mass of crimson clouds, more than 8,000 miles wide – large enough to engulf Earth. But the Great Red Spot on the surface of Jupiter is shrinking – and scientists finally may ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking. The biggest windstorm in the solar system has been slowly declining for decades, but some new research may explain why. There are fewer storms feeding this ...

The Great Red Spot is shrinking. There is no question that the solar system’s most famous storm is considerably smaller than it was 40 years ago. When the Voyager spacecraft flew by Jupiter in ...