Solar Storms Supercharge Jupiter's Dramatic Auroras (Photo)

Jupiter's already impressive auroral displays get a big boost from solar storms, a new study reveals. Jupiter's auroras blazed eight times more brightly than normal in X-ray light in response to an October 2011 sun storm, generating hundreds of times more energy than Earth's famous northern lights. Lead author William Dunn, a doctoral candidate at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, and his team used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study how Jupiter's auroras behave