Chandra Observations Show Solar Storms Trigger Jupiter’s ‘Northern Lights’

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers show that solar storms trigger Jupiter’s intense ‘Northern Lights’ by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth’s aurora borealis. It is the first time that Jupiter’s X-ray aurora has been studied when a giant […]
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