diff --git a/.changeset/quiet-games-film.md b/.changeset/quiet-games-film.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bb9584d3693e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/quiet-games-film.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"astro": minor
+---
+
+The `<Picture />` component will now use `jpg` and `jpeg` respectively as fallback formats when the original image is in those formats. 
diff --git a/packages/astro/components/Picture.astro b/packages/astro/components/Picture.astro
index d4327840a5540..b0791f163528b 100644
--- a/packages/astro/components/Picture.astro
+++ b/packages/astro/components/Picture.astro
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ const defaultFallbackFormat = 'png' as const;
 // Certain formats don't want PNG fallbacks:
 // - GIF will typically want to stay as a gif, either for animation or for the lower amount of colors
 // - SVGs can't be converted to raster formats in most cases
+// - JPEGs compress photographs and high-noise images better than PNG in most cases
 // For those, we'll use the original format as the fallback instead.
-const specialFormatsFallback = ['gif', 'svg'] as const;
+const specialFormatsFallback = ['gif', 'svg', 'jpg', 'jpeg'] as const;
 
 const { formats = defaultFormats, pictureAttributes = {}, fallbackFormat, ...props } = Astro.props;