Tag: Mystery of Aurora

Jupiter's mysterious X-ray auroras have been explained, ending a 40-year quest for an answer. For the first time, astronomers have seen the way Jupiter's magnetic field is compressed, which heats the particles and directs them along the magnetic field lines down into the atmosphere of Jupiter, sparking the X-ray aurora. The connection was made by combining in-situ data from NASA's Juno mission with X-ray observations from ESA's XMM-Newton. Credit: ESA/NASA/Yao/Dunn

40-Year- Old Mystery Over Jupiter’s X-Ray Aurora – Finally Solved

MessageToEagle.com | July 10, 2021

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes is finally solved. The X-rays are

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