UK Amateur Recreates the Great Red Spot’s Glory Days

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Graphical comparison showing how Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has shrunk in the past 125 years using photographs taken in 1890. See below for details on how it was done. Credit: Damian Peach

Maybe it’s too soon for a pity party, but the profound changes in the size and prominence of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) in the past 100 years has me worried. After Saturn’s rings, Jupiter’s big bloody eye is one of astronomy’s most iconic sights.

This titanic hurricane-like storm has charmed earthlings since Giovanni Cassini first spotted it in the mid-1600s.  Will our grandchildren turn their telescopes to Jove only to see a pale pink oval like so many others rolling around the planet’s South Tropical Zone?

Maybe.(…)
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