Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm

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This series of Hubble Space Telescope images taken over 2 years tracks the demise of a giant dark vortex on the planet Neptune. The oval-shaped spot has shrunk from 3,100 miles across its long axis to 2,300 miles across, over the Hubble observation period.

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Credits: NASA, ESA, and M.H. Wong and A.I. Hsu (UC Berkeley)

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