Mystery solved: Jupiter’s X-ray aurora explained
X-ray flares triggered by vibrations in magnetic field lines.
Chinese and UK researchers have solved a 40-year-old puzzle: how does Jupiter produce regular and spectacular bursts ...
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Aurora created in a lab
Physicists definitively describe how auroras are created.
A team of physicists has just completed a decades-long quest to experimentally demonstrate the physical mechanism of ...
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Legendary astronomer picks space films that hit close to home.
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Study raises concern for sun ‘superflare’
Research finds it’s not just young stars that behave explosively.
Astronomers monitoring data from thousands of distant stars have come to an unnerving conclusion: every 2000 to 3000 ...
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Supercomputer clues to violent magnetic events
Modelling clarifies mystery of solar storms and aurorae.
Researchers are a step closer to understanding the violent magnetic events that cause the storms on the sun’s surface...
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Saturn wears the crown
Hubble imaging reveals the majesty of a massive planet’s massive aurora.
For a period of seven months in 2017, NASA’s Hubble Space telescope took a series of images, using ultraviolet light,...
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This is not an aurora
Mysterious light is an entirely new celestial phenomenon. Andrew Masterson reports.
A mysterious light in the sky has been found not to be an aurora, confounding the conclusions of many astronomers. Wh...
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Jupiter’s aurorae put the Earth’s to shame
Images from Juno surprise planetary scientists with unexpected results. Richard A Lovett reports.
Planetary scientists studying the upper atmosphere of Jupiter have discovered unexpected details in bright spots in i...
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Aurora and dawn
The International Space Station is the perfect place to watch the sun rise.
Astronaut Ricky Arnold snapped this photo from the International Space Station and posted it to Twitter with the comm...
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An aurora named Steve
Citizen scientists helped NASA boffins understand a previously unknown kind of aurora.
A composite image show the ‘Steve’ aurora and the Milky Way over Childs Lake, Manitoba, Canada.Krista Trinder Th...
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Jupiter’s light show just got weird
A newly discovered southern aurora behaves quite differently to its northern counterpart. Andrew ...
After years of fruitless searching, astronomers have discovered a southern aurora on Jupiter – and it’s weird.On Eart...