20 Cosmic Storms That Look Straight Out of Sci-Fi

Forget your local weather drama—these 20 photos take you straight to the wildest storms the cosmos has to offer. From Jupiter’s Great Red Spot that’s been raging for centuries to Neptune’s chaotic winds that make hurricanes look like a gentle breeze, these storms are rewriting the rules of “extreme weather.”

“An approaching Martian dust storm.”

“A hexagonal storm with a diameter of 25 thousand km rages at the north pole of Saturn.”

“This image shows two of Jupiter’s large rotating storms, captured by Juno’s visible-light imager, JunoCam, on Juno’s 38th perijove pass, on Nov. 29, 2021.”

More storms pepper Jupiter’s surface, as seen during NASA’s Juno Mission.

The sun ejects plasma from its surface.

Clouds swirl during a storm on Saturn’s surface.

Two storms appearing as dark spots on Neptune’s surface, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A dust storm tears through Mars, as seen by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

A “dust devil” on Mars’ surface, as depicted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Another view of a massive hurricane on Saturn’s North Pole.

Another angle of “the hexagon” on Saturn.

Neptune weathers a massive polar storm, as seen by the Hubble Telescope.

An up close, color-enhanced photo of Jupiter’s red spot, which scientists believe is a massive anticyclonic storm.

Cloud patterns surrounding the stormy, Great Red Spot.

Titan’s storms as captured by the NASA Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. The bright spots are believed to be dust storms.

Several giant storms center around Jupiter’s North Pole.

A high-pressure system spotted on Neptune.

The aftermath of a martian dust storm, as captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

The sun as seen in the middle of a solar storm.

“This is what a hurricane on Saturn looks like.”