Published on February 21, 2017
The northern lights here on Earth might seem otherworldly, but the ones on Jupiter are truly out of this world.
In a study published in Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, researchers announce that they have observed the effects of a solar storm on Jupiter’s aurora, the planet’s version of our northern lights. It’s the first time the interaction between Jupiter’s aurora and a solar storm, also known a a coronal mass ejection or CME, has been observed.
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