Jupiter's \"Cyclops\" eye.Nasa\/ESA\/A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) <\/p>\n
Jupiter has been spotted \"looking back\" at us through a huge Cyclops eye by Nasa's Hubble Telescope. <\/p>\n
The 10,000 mile-diameter \"eye\" was spotted while Hubble was monitoring changes to the planet's Great Red Spot storm that took place in April. <\/p>\n
At this time, Jupiter's Ganymede moon moved across the storm, casting a shadow across the area, which made the Great Red Spot look like a giant eye looking back at Earth. <\/p>\n
The eye was the result of a shadow passing over the storm(Nasa\/ESA\/A. Simon Goddard Space Flight Center) <\/p>\n
\"This gave the giant planet the uncanny appearance of having a pupil in the centre of a 10,000 mile-diameter 'eye',\" Nasa said. \"For a moment, Jupiter 'stared' back at Hubble like a one-eyed giant Cyclops.\" <\/p>\n
The Great Red Spot is a persistent anticyclonic storm first discovered in 1665 by Gian Domenico Cassini. <\/p>\n
Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking since the 1930s(Nasa\/ESA) <\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Nasa announced it has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured,with the spot measuring just 10,250 miles across. <\/p>\n
Astronomers said the spot has been getting smaller since the 1930s. Amy Simon of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre, said: \"It is apparent very small eddies are feeding into the storm.We hypothesised these may be responsible for the accelerated change by altering the internal dynamics and energy of the Great Red Spot.\" <\/p>\n
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