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Aurora astronomy[edit | edit source]

This image of Jupiter shows concentrations of auroral X-rays near the north and south magnetic poles. The Chandra X-ray Observatory accumulated X-ray counts from Jupiter for its entire 10-hour rotation on December 18, 2000. Credit: NASA/CXC/SWRI/G.R.Gladstone et al.
Aurora at Jupiter's north pole is seen in ultraviolet light by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: John T. Clarke (U. Michigan), ESA, NASA.

The "image of Jupiter shows concentrations of auroral X-rays near the north and south magnetic poles."[1] The Chandra X-ray Observatory accumulated X-ray counts from Jupiter for its entire 10-hour rotation on December 18, 2000. Note that X-rays from the entire globe of Jupiter are detected.

Second is an ultraviolet image of aurora at Jupiter's north pole by the Hubble Space Telescope.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. NASA/CXC/SWRI/G.R.Gladstone (February 27, 2002). Jupiter Hot Spot Makes Trouble For Theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0001/. Retrieved 2012-07-11.