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Rosetta’s ‘rubber ducky’ comet has ultraviolet auroras – Live Science
Planets aren’t the only things in the solar system with auroras. Comets can have them too, data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission has revealed.
While looking at data from Rosetta, researchers found evidence of ultraviolet auroras at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which the probe studied up close for nearly two years before the mission ended in 2016.
“Rosetta is the first mission to observe an ultraviolet aurora at a comet,” Matt Taylor, a Rosetta project scientist at ES…
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