Anticyclone Shrinks, Timelapses

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is being squeezed, Hubble Telescope finds — and nobody knows why

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Astronomers used Hubble to observe the Great Red Spot for 88.5 days between December 2023 and March 2024 .

A timelapse of images taken during that period shows that the GRS periodically expands and shrinks along its semi-major axis (the widest part of an ellipse) The anticyclone currently measures about 9,165 miles ( 14,750 kilometers ) across.

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