{"id":12267,"date":"2025-06-25T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12267\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:45:10","slug":"amateur-astronomer-spent-seven-months-creating-a-unique-look-at-jupiters-massive-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12267\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Astronomer Spent Seven Months Creating a Unique Look at Jupiter’s Massive Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Swedish photographer and amateur astronomer Peter Ros\u00e9n<\/a> has created an incredible new video that combines thousands of photos of Jupiter<\/a> to show the gas giant\u2019s newly developed massive storms. <\/p>\n

Ros\u00e9n tells PetaPixel he has spent the last seven months \u201cprocessing, stitching, and stacking\u201d photos of Jupiter for his new citizen science project. Ros\u00e9n, like many other passionate amateur astronomers, is heavily involved with NASA\u2019s Juno Mission project<\/a>, which heavily emphasizes the importance of citizen scientists. Alongside constantly sharing JunoCam\u2019s views of the Jovian gas giant, the project invites amateur astronomers to submit the photos of Jupiter they capture from Earth with their own telescopes. <\/p>\n

It is these amateur-submitted telescope photos that Ros\u00e9n has leveraged for his new video.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn late 2024 and early 2025, I downloaded thousands of still images of Jupiter taken by amateur planetary photographers from around the world stretching over a period of more than three months,\u201d Ros\u00e9n explains. <\/p>\n

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He then selected the photos that best overlapped over a 100-day window, remapped all of them into cylindrical projections, corrected them to have uniform sharpness, contrast, luminosity, and color balance, and then stacked and stitched them into 360-degree cylindrical maps. Ros\u00e9n adds that he did not use any AI during the lengthy process. <\/p>\n

The impetus for the project was the appearance of a \u201ctiny white spot in Jupiter\u2019s South Equatorial Belt (SEB) that quickly grew in size during the following weeks\u201d on November 11, 2024. This, Ros\u00e9n says, was called the \u201cMid SEB oubtreak.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Two months later, on January 10, 2025, a new spot appeared in Jupiter\u2019s North Temperature Belt, \u201cthe blueish band on top.\u201d This is Juptier\u2019s fastest jet, moving at up to 650 kilometers per hour. <\/p>\n

By creating what he refers to as three \u201cvirtual probes\u201d in geostationary orbit around Jupiter, Ros\u00e9n could continuously monitor the storm using images captured by fellow citizen scientists. By carefully collecting, sorting, and processing data, Ros\u00e9n developed a 360-degree view of the planet. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThese massive storms on Jupiter are quite rare, and more so having two of them erupt in a short period,\u201d Ros\u00e9n tells PetaPixel. \u201cI make my animations from real amateur pictures so everything is scientifically correct but I also want them to be [aesthetically pleasing] and compelling even to people who are not necessarily into astronomy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cJupiter is like a storm lab, and the scientists from around the world are trying to analyze their origin and behavior to better understand the processes that drive the destructive hurricanes here on Earth. <\/p>\n

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\u201cA big difference is that we have land mass while Jupiter doesn\u2019t, so the storms can go on unobstructed for very long periods. An example is the Great Red Spot that is an anticyclone that has endured for at least 200 years, possibly 300.\u201d <\/p>\n

Ros\u00e9n adds that Juno discovered that Jupiter\u2019s storms originate from jet streams that go thousands of kilometers deep. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The project, which offers a comprehensive look at the two recent massive storms that erupted on Jupiter, is an excellent example of the value of the citizen scientist community. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am involved in the Mission Juno pro-amateur project and decided to monitor and animate these storms as a contribution to these analyses, and I have discovered some intriguing patterns in these storms that I don\u2019t think anybody has seen before,\u201d Ros\u00e9n says. <\/p>\n

He will analyze his findings further and submit a report to the researchers working on the Juno project. <\/p>\n

\u201cA big thank you to all the skilled amateur planetary photographers from around the world who upload their images to PVOL and ALPO Japan,\u201d Ros\u00e9n adds. Their contributions make something like Ros\u00e9n\u2019s new video possible. <\/p>\n

Image credits:<\/strong> Screenshots captured from Peter Ros\u00e9n\u2019s new video, \u20182 Huge Storms have erupted on Jupiter.\u2019 The images he used were submitted by amateur astronomers as part of the Mission Juno Pro-Amateur project. Ros\u00e9n meticulously processed, edited and aligned the included images as part of his own contribution to the Juno mission. <\/p>\n