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Birth of 'Great Dark Spot' Storm on Neptune Seen for 1st Time (Photo)
For the first time ever, astronomers have witnessed the birth of one of Neptune's enormous "Great Dark Spot" storms. Astronomers were studying Hubble Space Telescope images of a relatively small Neptune maelstrom that formed in 2015 when they noticed bright white clouds forming in a different locale on the ice giant. By 2018, a dark storm as wide as Earth had boiled up in that region, the researchers announced in a study published today (March 25) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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