The Hubble Space Telescope and also the Keck telescope in Hawaii captured some images of a third giant red spot which recently appeared on Jupiter. The photos were taken on May 9 and 10 and were released yesterday.

This is the giant’s third red spot, after the Great Red Spot and Red Spot, Jr. and reached it current red state when its clouds started rising and reacted to the solar UV radiations. Initially, Jupiter’s new red spot was a white oval-shaped storm and at this point it is just a fraction of the size of the two others.

The first one, the Great Red Spot is about 300-years-old and its size equals that of the Earths’. The second, Red Spot, Jr. appeared in 2006.

"If this spot and the Great Red Spot continue on their courses, they will encounter each other in August, and the small oval will either be absorbed or repelled from the Great Red Spot," Michael Wong of Berkeley, who worked on the study, said in a statement, according to Reuters.

The general opinion is that the third red spot’s presence is caused by a series of intense climate changes in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere.

The Hubble Space Telescope will continue to provide valuable information about Jupiter’s evolution, as it has done on numerous projects for the past 18 years. Plans for its upgrade are scheduled to begin this fall, in October.