14 DAY TRIAL // Most people would give Saturn the beauty queen title in our Solar System, but there are some that prefer the less glamorous, rawer beauty of Jupiter.
These are exciting times for Jupiter fans, the planet is going through more changes than ever before and its tumultuous atmosphere is creating a spectacle for astronomers.
For the past three years, the planet's major features have changed quite a lot, Jupiter is now whiter than ever.
It's not a slow transformation either, Jupiter's iconic belts are changing shape and color, hotspots are disappearing and popping back up again later, while cloud activity is increasing.
All the while, Jupiter is getting hit by more debris than ever, or at least more are being noticed since a lot of amateur astronomers are watching for this type of events. NASA astronomers have been keeping track of the changes and are now revealing the finds of their studies of the past few years.
"The changes we're seeing in Jupiter are global in scale," Glenn Orton, NASA JPL research scientists, said.
"We've seen some of these before, but never with modern instrumentation to clue us in on what's going on. Other changes haven't been seen in decades, and some regions have never been in the state they're appearing in now," he added.
"At the same time, we've never seen so many things striking Jupiter. Right now, we're trying to figure out why this is all happening," he said.