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Red Spot

noun Astronomy.
a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
Also called Great Red Spot.


Origin:
1875–80
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Red spot is always a great word to know.
So is meteoroid. Does it mean:
a low-mass star that emits low to average amounts of light that burn their hydrogen slowly over a long life span
any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor
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