Best Space Photos of the Week – Oct. 17, 2015

Jupiter’s trademark Great Red Spot may be shrinking, but it’s not going down without a fight. Amazing new maps of the Jupiter by the Hubble Space Telescope…Read More » reveal that the Great Red Spot, a massive storm about twice the diameter of Earth, is slowing the speed at which it shrinks. The Jupiter maps, first in series of annual portraits of the outer planets, also reveal rare wave structures that scientists haven’t seen for nearly 40 years. [Read the full story. ]   Less «