Jupiter's Monster Storm Is Slowly Disappearing! #astronomy #space #shorts

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]See that swirling red spot on Jupiter?

[00:00:03]That's not just a storm. This is the Great Red Spot, a hurricane that's been [music] raging for over 400 years.

[00:00:11]When Galileo first pointed his telescope at Jupiter in 1665, this storm was already there, [music] and it's still going. It's so massive, you could fit two, maybe three Earths [music] inside it.

[00:00:25]But here's the thing, it's shrinking.

[00:00:28]100 years ago, it was twice as big.

[00:00:32]Wind speeds reach 400 mph [music] at the edges. That's twice as fast as the strongest hurricanes on Earth.

[00:00:40]And unlike our storms [music] that last days or weeks, this one has lasted centuries.

[00:00:47]But here's the real mystery.

[00:00:49]Scientists still don't know why it's red.

[00:00:51]>> [music] >> Some think it's chemicals in the atmosphere reacting to sunlight.

[00:00:56]Others >> [music] >> believe it's material dredged up from deep below Jupiter's clouds stained by cosmic radiation.

[00:01:04]A storm older than the United States on a planet so large it could hold 1,300 Earths inside it.

[00:01:12]Space [music] doesn't just make you feel small, it makes you realize how temporary everything we know really is.