The majestic Jupiter is the warrior big brother of our solar system shows its best side, and every side is the best side of this unique planet.

But a sharp new image from the Hubble Space Telescope released by the telescope site on September 17th shows the evolving runaway weather of the giant planet, revealing short and long-term changes.

The Great Red Spot

In the northern half of it turbulent clouds could indicate the formation of a new vortex storm, while in the south it appears that a long-lived storm about half the size of the Great Red Spot slowly changes its color from white to red.

And if that were not enough, then on the left we also have a light bomb from the icy moon Europe, one of the goals of the search for extraterrestrial life.

The Great Red Spot, the most famous storm of Jupiter - which is the most striking feature of this new image - is a truly massive storm spinning counterclockwise, and it is believed to have been around for at least 350 years.

In the past few decades, the Great Red Spot appears to be shrinking, a mystery that has baffled scientists, but it is still huge, as it is currently 15,800 km wide.

This is less than 16,350 km in 2017, but it is still much larger than the Earth's diameter of 12,742 km, and recently the shrinkage of the Great Red Spot has slowed, but has not stopped completely.

Recently the shrinkage of the Great Red Spot has slowed but not stopped completely (NASA-ESA)

BA Oval Storm

Directly below the Great Red Spot is a storm called the Oval BA, it is much smaller than this spot, but absolutely wonderful in its own right. It formed in the late 1990s from 3 smaller storms that have been raging for 60 years, and have intensified since then.

Interestingly, she began her newly compact life as a white storm, and then in 2006 scientists noticed that she was changing her color to turn red like her older cousin, but she did not stay that way, the acquired color faded back to white over a few years.

But the new Hubble image reveals that white was not always white, and the "PE oval" appears to be turning red again.

This will be a great thing to watch in the future, to determine if there is any reason behind these color changes, but it will likely be many years before the pattern is distinguished.

A fledgling storm

And in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter at mid-latitudes, a very bright white storm appeared, moving at about 560 kilometers per hour, followed by a column, and storms on Jupiter come and go all the time, but this storm looks different.

And there are small, dark cyclonic masses - rotating counterclockwise - coming behind them, embedded in the column. We have not seen this before, and scientists believe that it may be a long-lived nascent storm, such as the Great Red Spot and the "PA" oval in the south.

Sure, there is a lot awaiting planetary scientists to dive into as they try to understand Jupiter's unpredictable and wild atmosphere, but it's also a startling reminder of the beauty and splendor of our little corner of the universe.