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Mike Wehner
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- Neptune, the frigid world that lives past Saturn and Uranus, has been known to host large storms in its atmosphere.
- Recent observations of a "dark spot" storm on the planet revealed something interesting, as the storm rapidly changed directions.
- The storm prevented its own destruction and appears to have spawned a tiny twin in the process.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spent decades observing some of the most distant reaches of the cosmos, but its latest discovery occurred much closer to home. Scientists using Hubble to observe the frosty giant planet Neptune discovered that the large "dark spot" storm churning in its atmosphere has done something unexpected.
The storm, which appears as a blurry dark spot from here on Earth, was moving south across the planet when observed in 2019. Now, as NASA reveals in a new blog post, more recent images taken in 2020 suggest that the storm is reversing course, heading back north and moving away from the area of the planet where the storms disappear.
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