Nasa has just released a trove of new Jupiter images and they look stunning.

The photographs were captured by the Juno spacecraft, which made its eighth flyby last week.

The initial raw photos are a little grainy, but the US space agency let amateur astronomers process the images.

And the results are incredible.

Jupiter image.
The patterns on this image show cyclones clustered near the north pole of the Red Planet (Shawn Handran/SwRI/MSSS/Nasa)

Jupiter image.
Besides polar cyclones, Juno also spotted white ice caps on Jupiter – frozen bits of ammonia and water (Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran/SwRI/MSSS/Nasa)

Jupiter image.
The white spots are believed to be cool storms, brown are warm, and red are hot storms (Mehdi Bozzo-Rey/SwRI/MSSS/Nasa)

The orbiter was launched on August 2011 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It finally reached Jupiter’s orbit in July 2016.

Its mission is to help scientists learn about Jupiter’s origins, atmosphere, and other mysteries.

Juno’s next flyby will take place on December 16.

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