New Details and Mysteries in Jupiter’s Aurora Revealed
The auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms of gas. Not only are the auroras on Jupiter huge in size, they are also hundreds of times more energetic than auroras on Earth. Here, auroras are caused by solar storms — when charged particles rain […]
How a Giant Sunspot Unleashed Solar Storms that Spawned Global Auroras that Just Dazzled Us All
“One of those rare moments that you just can be at one with it with Mother Earth, and with the cosmos.” By Meredith Garofalo First, it was the total solar eclipse at the beginning of April. Then, late last week, the sun became the “star” attraction yet again: A huge sunspot launched a series of […]