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Giant Red Spot devours its sibling

news.cnet.com — Awesome Images from the Hubble telescope show the end of a giant red storm on Jupiter which had been called the "Baby Red Spot."

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  • inactive, on 07/21/2008, -0/+52I LOVE THE HUBBLE DAMNIT! I LOVE IT!
  • Mewchu11, on 07/23/2008, -1/+24When asked for comment the great red spot was quoted as saying "om nom nom nom"
  • MrM1yagi, on 07/23/2008, -1/+18It's hard to imagine a storm that is wider than two Earths. Amazing.
  • Tenzy, on 07/23/2008, -7/+24Obligatory OM NOM NOM NOM comment
  • shaXian, on 07/22/2008, -0/+14If you love Hubble images, just wait to see what the JWST will show us.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Tele ...
  • Alex2, on 07/23/2008, -0/+12Obligatory 'Damn, you beat me to it'
  • theduckchaser, on 07/23/2008, -0/+10Obligatory criticism of obligation in general
  • WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/23/2008, -0/+9Obligatory occasional reference to Bill O'Reilly anger problems
  • asskey, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7Obligatory seeing wut u did thar
  • inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7Obligatory blaming of Bush
  • xombi242, on 07/23/2008, -1/+7nice pics
    here's the animation: http://media.skyandtelescope.com/images/Jspot_7-27 ...
  • AxsToro, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5Obligatory ***** MPAA and RIAA
  • rheaume, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5"a storm that's wider than two Earths"

    Insane
  • Visual77, on 07/23/2008, -1/+5boom de yada
  • paradigm1220, on 07/23/2008, -5/+9Wasn't this JUST on here?
  • jblossom, on 07/23/2008, -1/+5Kinda puts the day into perspective, doesn't it.
  • JammoBlammo, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Obligatory observation of red spot being a certain color.
  • CouchTomato, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3 6 new spots will be spawned from the mother spot in 57 years..
  • ShadowofAres, on 07/23/2008, -3/+6http://digg.com/space/Jupiter_s_Third_Red_Spot_Des ...

    11 days ago, 1182 diggs
  • jeffro1250, on 07/23/2008, -1/+4Obligatory Dark Knight statement
  • inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3*burp*
  • TDot1980, on 07/23/2008, -1/+4Obligatory screenshot-and-submit-to-Digg-as-Why-I-Love-Digg
  • faatbuddha, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3oh. my. GOD.
  • theduckchaser, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3okay, I know it's natural for some animals to eat their young... but that doesn't make it easier to watch
  • sgtbutterscotch, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3damn Giant Red Spot, you scary!
  • Arcesius, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3Oh man, I can't wait until the future. It's gonna be so cool.
  • DuffyDirect, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3I'm lovin' it
  • Brododium, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Dugg for subtle reference to Saturn Devouring His Sons in the title.
  • inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Before I read what the photo was, I thought it was an abstract-impressionist painting.
  • MichaelMerritt, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Halloween_Nor%27 ...
  • kmattso, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Ya, I saw that coming from 365 million miles away.
  • baseballbear, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3thank you, was waiting for it
  • JammoBlammo, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2I hate surfing the web... can't the web surf me.. or something?
  • alpha88, on 07/23/2008, -1/+2I devoured a sibling once..

    I mean... wut?
  • inactive, on 07/23/2008, -1/+2amazing.
  • BossKey, on 07/23/2008, -2/+3Obligatory sibling-eats-sibling response: "The Aristocrats"
  • m0laria, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Damn, I must have missed the internet that day. Sorry I don't go trolling through digg's logs to pick up on all the articles I missed.
  • faatbuddha, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Dude... I wanna go to Jupiter now.
  • themastersb, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1In after OM NOM NOM NOM.
  • MJDub, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1The senator from Virginia is more accomplished than I thought.
  • Millsee, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Go to Soviet Russia.
  • nowsamsara, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Freaking awesome! Thanks!
  • Sheri123, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Wild.
  • mattlohkamp, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Whoa, deja vu - didn't I already read about this happening? Maybe Digg is sending me prophetic visions of cosmic occurrences...
  • inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Anyone ever seen one of those Jupiter models...I hate to call it a simulation...basically it's transparent globe with a smaller transparent globe inside of it and sandwiched between those is some kind of sparkly metallic fluid that behaves a lot like Jupiter's surface when you spin the globe. I played with one for a while at a Museum of Science and Industry exhibit in Tampa once. Ever since then I occasionally think, "Man, I wish I had one of those things at home."
  • Halsfield, on 07/23/2008, -0/+0shows us two things: A) the universe is incredibly scary and enthralling at the same time and B) scientists should not be allowed to name things in space.
  • JammoBlammo, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1Nice, thanks :)
  • RogueMountie, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1The red spot arouses me.
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