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Solar Storm Activates Jupiter’s X-Ray ‘Northern Lights’

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Earth is not the only planet in the solar system with aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, according to a new study. Jupiter, it turns out, also has a similar phenomenon, only the X-ray aurora on the gas giant is “hundreds of times more energetic” and “eight times brighter” than we see here. They are also larger than the entire surface area of Earth, researchers said. Researchers say this is the first time Jupiter’s X-ray aurora has been examined thanks to a “giant” solar storm that...

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