A Nasa probe has beamed back images of a hellish cluster of whirling cyclones in the atmosphere of Jupiter which are strong enough to rip a human to shreds.

But we think they look like gigantic bits of pepperoni on a huge and yummy-looking pizza.

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The Juno spacecraft has snapped incredible images of a constellation of nine cyclones over Jupiter’s north pole and six over the south pole.


Wind speeds in these nightmarish vortexes reach 220 mph.

The massive storms haven’t changed position much – or merged – since observations began.

It might look like a planet-sized deep pan, but this Nasa image shows a cyclone at the planet’s north pole with eight storms encircling it (Source: Nasa)

Jupiter’s South Pole looks a lot creepier than its meaty polar opposite (Provider: AFP/Getty Images)

This image of a pepperoni pizza was probably taken by agency photographers, rather than a Nasa probe

Scientists led by Alberto Adriani of Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome zoomed in the north pole to find an octagon-shaped storm network over the north pole, which consists of eight cyclones surrounding one in the middle and looks like a pizza.



They also found a six-sided cloud system spinning over Saturn’s north pole, which resembles an evil-looking pentagram.

Each of the cyclones in both pictures is thousands of miles wide.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers Glenn Orton and Fachreddin Tabataba-Vakili, who both took part in the study, said the new discoveries ‘show Jupiter from a new perspective’.

‘We cannot say how many mysteries are left to uncover,’ they said.

‘We are already finding way more fascinating results than we ever expected!’

The gas giant Jupiter is fifth from the sun and by far the largest planet in our solar system.

Juno was launched in 2011 and has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.

What’s the difference between Jupiter and a pepperoni pizza?

You can see Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in this picture stitched together from images taken by Juno (Photo: Nasa/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ MSSS/ Gerald Eichstadt/ Sean Doran)

(Picture: Juno Mission/Nasa)

Well, first of all, Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.

Pizza is an Italian dish consisting of a type of bread and a few ingredients thrown on top. Ideally, it’s cooked in a big brick igloo thing or some other type of cool oven.

Here’s what Nasa says about the makeup of the huge ‘gas giant’ planet: ‘Its atmosphere is made up of mostly hydrogen gas and helium gas, like the sun. The planet is covered in thick red, brown, yellow and white clouds. The clouds make the planet look like it has stripes.’

But pizza is made up of only a small number of ingredients, which makes it cheap to make and profitable to sell.

A pepperoni pizza is little more than cooked dough with cheese, tomato and cheap meat whacked on top. So why is it always so bloody expensive?

It’s unlikely that Nasa will ever answer this question.

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