Storm bigger than EARTH snapped in stunning Jupiter.

The so-called Great Red Spot is wider than the Earth, with furious winds reaching speeds of up to 425mph.

The newly published image was snapped by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope on June 27 this year.
It shows the huge colourful clouds swirling in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere.
The sweeping bands are created by differences in thickness and height of ammonia ice clouds.
But the most exciting feature is the Great Red Spot just off from the planet's centre.

The huge storm on Jupiter is 1.3x wider than Earth.
This enormous storm has a diameter of around 10,160 miles, and rotates fully every six Earth days.
And experts believe it's been raging for hundreds of years – potentially as early as 1665, and definitely as early as 1830.
"The Great Red Spot is a towering structure shaped like a wedding cake, whose upper haze layer extends more than 3 miles higher than clouds in other areas," Nasa explained.
"The gigantic structure, with a diameter slightly larger than Earth's, is a high-pressure wind system called an anticyclone that has been slowly downsizing since the 1800s.
"The reason for this change is still unknown.

How far away is Jupiter from Earth?

Learn how long it takes to get the largest planet in the solar system...

• At the closest point in their respective orbits, Jupiter and Earth are around 365 million miles apart.
• But because neither planet spins around the sun in a perfect circle, nor at the same speed, this number fluctuates dramatically.
• When they are furthest apart.
• • the planets are 601 million miles apart, more than two thirds farther away than they are at their nearest.
  • As it is further away Jupiter takes 11.86 Earth-years to complete one orbit of the sun.
  • While we travel around our star we catch up with the gas Giant once every 399 days, causing the gas giant to appear to travel backwards in the night sky.
   Astronomers believe that the Great Red Spot is the largest storm in the Solar System.
  And it can vary wildly in colour, from almost brick-red to white.
  Sadly, scientists can't agree on exactly what causes the formation or colour of the Great Red Spot.
  However, they believe it has lasted for so long because there's no planetary surface to provide friction.
  Jupiter is primarily composed of gas and a liquid hydrogen core, meaning there's nothing to oppose the giant storm's momentum.
  

  What is the Hubble Space Telescope?

  Here's what you need to know...
• The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope that captures images while in space
• It was launched into a low-Earth orbit in 1990 and is still fully operational
• The advantage of Hubble is that it takes photos from outside of Earth's atmosphere
• This means distortion from the atmosphere is removed, allowing for more accurate image capture
• Nasa's Hubble has captured some of most detailed images of space ever recorded.
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• The Hubble telescope was also able to accurately determine the rate at which the universe was expanding
• Hubble is also the only telescope that was designed to be serviced by astronauts in space
• Five different missions have been launched to repair, upgrade or replace parts of the Hubble telescope
• It's believed that the Hubble telescope could continue working until 2040
• But its successor–the James Webb Space Telescope–is already set for launch in March 2021.