Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa in all probability glows at nighttime – The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette

The icy Jupiter moon Europa is an astrobiological beacon, quite literally glowing in the deep darkness far from the sun, a new study suggests.
Jupiter’s intense radiation environment likely lights up Europa’s icy shell, which overlies a huge, potentially habitable ocean of salty liquid water, researchers have found.
“If Europa weren’t under this radiation, it would look the way our moon looks to us dark on the shadowed side,” study lead author Murthy Gudipati, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion…

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