It's becoming the Little Red Spot.

Stunning new images of Jupiter from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope have been released. Put together as a video, they offer an extraordinary 360-degree view of the surface of the biggest planet in the Solar System. It's an exquisite experience.

From what the reveal of the geographical patterns on Jupiter, the Great Red Spot – a huge storm which has raged on Jupiter’s surface for at least three hundred years – is now shrinking. Fast.

Back in the 1880s, the Great Red Spot was large enough for three Earth-sized planets to fit in. In May 2014, its diameter has dropped drastically to 16,496 km, only 3,754 km more than Earth’s. And now, the latest images from the Hubble telescope show that it has shrunk an additional 240 km since then.

That’s not all. The centre of the spot also looks less intense in colour than earlier. According to Universe Today, this filamentary streamer rotates and twists throughout the ten-hour span of the Great Red Spot image sequence, distorted by winds that are blowing at 540 kilometres per hour.

Scientists also found, for the first time, new visual details about the occurrence of cyclones and anticyclones on Jupiter’s surface.

Under the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) programme, the Hubble telescope takes detailed photographs of the outer planets – Jupiter Neptune and Uranus for now, and Saturn later – in the Solar System every year. Expect spectacular new images soon.