A beautiful image of Jupiter taken by the NASA Hubble telescope has captured the formation of an almighty storm in the planet's northern hemisphere. NASA says the storm is a'bright, white, stretched-out storm moving at 560 kilometres per hour' at mid-northern latitudes. Storms in this region are very common but this one appears different, as it has more structure and could be forming into a permanent feature. 'Researchers speculate this may be the beginning of a longer-lasting northern hemisphere spot, perhaps to rival the legendary Great Red Spot that dominates the southern hemisphere,' NASA says in a statement. Image of Jupiter taken by Hubble has captured the formation of an almighty storm in the planet's northern hemisphere.

It's always a mistake to read," Philip Marcus, a computational physicist and a professor in the mechanical engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley, tells me in a coffee shop near campus. "You learn too many things. That's how I got really fascinated by fluid dynamics." It was 1978, and Marcus was in his first year of a post-doctoral position at Cornell focused on numerical simulations of solar convection and laboratory flows using spectral methods. But he had wanted to study cosmic evolution and general relativity; the problem, as Marcus told me, was that there was talk of no one seeing results of general relativity within their lifetime. As a result, "the field kind of collapsed on itself a little bit, and so everybody from general relativity was going to other fields." It was also in 1978 that Voyager 1 began to send up-close images of Jupiter back to Earth. When Marcus needed to, as he put it, "unwind, relax, whatever," he would walk over to a special ...