Jupiter Breaks Out in Spots

A third red spot has appeared alongside the Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr. in the turbulent Jovian atmosphere. The visible-light images were taken on May 9 and 10 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Wong and I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley))

A third redspot has appeared on Jupiter in what astronomers called a case of the planetarymeasles.

Astronomersspotted the new storm — a distant smaller cousin of the GreatRed Spot and Little Red Spot — using the Hubble Space Telescope and W.M.Keck telescope to get both visible-light and near-infrared images.

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