A pet peeve of mine is stale news recycled as new. Take a look at this story on the NASA website, about a photograph of Jupiter taken at the end of May.

June 5, 2006: The two biggest storms in the solar system are about to go bump in the night, in plain view of backyard telescopes.

Storm #1 is the Great Red Spot, twice as wide as Earth itself, with winds blowing 350 mph. The behemoth has been spinning around Jupiter for hundreds of years.

Storm #2 is Oval BA, also known as "Red Jr.," a youngster of a storm only six years old. Compared to the Great Red Spot, Red Jr. is half-sized, able to swallow Earth merely once, but it blows just as hard as its older cousin...

Amateur astronomers are already monitoring the event. Christopher Go of the Philippines took the picture above using his 11-inch telescope on May 28th. "The distance between the storms is shrinking visibly every night," he says.

Now here comes CNN nearly 2 months later with some breaking news from the Reuters wire.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot -- a high-pressure storm on the big planet's surface -- has been around for centuries, but Monday astronomers released images of a new, smaller Jovian storm they call Red Spot Jr.

Using the Keck II telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured a high-resolution picture of both spots on July 20.

What happens here is that NASA published an amateur photographer's picture back in early June. It takes 2 months for the pros to steer their telescope into place and come up with some hi-res photos. They release those and it's big news. Meanwhile the poor Filipino amatuer is kicked to the curb.