For the first time, astronomers have witnessed giant storms colliding on Jupiter. Each storm, imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based detectors, resembles a white oval and covers an area half the size of Earth. These swirling vortexes carry winds that rotate some 470 kilometers per hour.
Top images: White oval storms on Jupiter, dubbed FA and BE, were separated by a dark storm called o1.
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