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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 ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot might not be losing its greatness after all. Although the storm has been dwindling for about a century and a half, a new study published in the Astronomical Journal ...

Astronomers have noticed the Great Red Spot shrinking since the OPAL program began a decade ago and predict that it will continue to shrink until it reaches a stable, less-elongated shape ...

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 ...

“It’s in a global system.” 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 Spo ...

The Great Red Spot is a storm larger than our whole planet ... It became clear in the last few years that it is shrinking. Now, new research suggests that the cause of this is a change in diet.

produced the Great Red Spot. The storm measured about 24,200 miles (about 39,000 kilometers) at its longest point, according to data from 1879, but it has been shrinking and becoming more rounded ...

[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. They predict that it will keep getting ...

But recently, it has been observed that the Great Red Spot is shrinking. Why is this happening, and what does it mean for the ...

Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot was once the width of three Earths ... In 2012, astronomers began to notice the shrinking was accelerating. NASA’s Amy Simon suggested small eddies, fluid ...