NASA/ESA/UC BERKELEY
What appears to be a painterly study -- of egg yolks? perhaps a dreamscape? -- is actually an image of Jupiter gleaned by the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers, including ones using the Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea, see a growing number of red spots: besides the big one, hundreds of years old, another (at bottom) started developing eight years ago, and a third (at left) popped up just months ago.
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