The Great Red Spot
From the Wiki Encyclopedia:
The Great Red Spot is a persistent anticyclonic storm, 22° south of Jupiter’s equator, which has lasted for at least 179 years and possibly as long as 344 years or more. Its dimensions are 24–40,000 km west–to–east and 12–14,000 km south–to–north. The spot is large enough to contain two or three planets the size of Earth.
I’ve been fascinated with the Great Red Spot, and Jupiter in general, since I was a child. It doesn’t seem real to me — a giant red eye on a surface of swirling paints, enormous beyond imagination — something that couldn’t and shouldn’t possibly exist, but does, and therefore is awesome.
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