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Hubble Captures Images Of Jupiter’s Glowing Auroras

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some beautiful images of glowing auroras over Jupiter’s poles.  Just in time for NASA’s Juno spaceship which is due to arrive at the gas giant in the coming days.  CNN reports: “These auroras are very dramatic and among the most active I have ever seen,” said Jonathan Nichols from the University of Leicester, UK, and principal investigator of the study. “It almost seems as if Jupiter is throwing a fireworks party for the imminent arrival of Juno,” Nichols said in press release. #Hubble studies auroras on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. https://t.co/zyPrVJdIBX pic.twitter.com/SsufGWHhkQ — HubbleTelescope (@HubbleTelescope) June 30, 2016 The new Hubble images show bluish lights that appear to dance over Jupiter’s poles. NASA says the observations of the auroras were supported by measurements made by Juno, which starts orbiting Jupiter on Monday, July 4. The auroras were photographed by Hubble during a series of observations of Jupiter made in far ultraviolet-light. The full-color disk of Jupiter used in the image was photographed separately by Hubble at an earlier time. Unlike auroras on Earth, NASA says the ones on Jupiter never cease. They are huge and “hundreds of times [...]