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NASA’s Juno spacecraft detects strange new auroras on Jupiter – Space.com

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Data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed faint aurora features likely triggered by charged particles coming from the edge of Jupiter’s massive magnetosphere.  (Image credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/V. Hue/G. R. Gladstone/B. Bonfond)
NASA’s Juno mission has detected new auroral emissions on Jupiter which appear to ripple over the planet’s poles. 
The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) on the Juno spacecraft captured this glowing phenomenon, which is characterized by faint ring-shaped emissions that…

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