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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Space, Astronomy and Cosmology

Jupiter's Great Red Spot: The Solar System's Largest Storm

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a persistent anticyclonic storm wider than Earth. It is the largest known atmospheric vortex in the solar system.

Photo of an Einstein Ring, a circular phenomenon caused by gravitational lensing.
Space, Astronomy and Cosmology

Einstein Ring: How Bent Light Reveals Hidden Mass

An Einstein ring is a circle of light that forms when a distant galaxy sits directly behind a massive foreground object, and its...

A huge purple cloud of hyrdogen in empty space.
Space and astronomyScience Tracker

Cloud-9: The Failed Dark Matter Galaxy

Astronomers have found the first confirmed "failed galaxy" - a dark matter cloud that never formed stars. Here are 5 things to know...