Saturday, August 30, 2025

Scientists Discover Unusual Plasma Waves in Jupiter's Aurora

Aurora around Jupiter's north pole captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (Credit : NASA)

In the cold darkness above Jupiter's poles, where temperatures plummet to hundreds of degrees below zero, something remarkable is happening that challenges our understanding of planetary science. Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, researchers have uncovered a completely new type of plasma phenomenon that creates auroras that can only be seen with specialised instruments, revealing that our Solar System's largest planet operates by rules we never knew existed.



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