There is amazing Weird and wonderful Happening at Jupiter's North Pole
Let’s presume for a sec that you are soaring through
Jupiter’s turbid skies and you have a pair of x-ray goggles with you, if you
see during those goggles, you will witness something far more incredible than something
you have ever seen. Bright flashes of light, extra shimmering and powerful than
the Sun, happening every 26 minutes and expansion as far as the eye can see.
That’s the heart of a massive solar storm newly experiential for the first time
close to Jupiter’s North Pole.
When astronomers saw
this they thought there was a few mistake in the data but there wasn’t any.
Researchers are unmoving not sure precisely what’s triggering this massive
storm. The main mystery with the Jupiter’s liberty weather is a bright x-ray
aurora, sited near the planet’s North Pole. It presently never disappears, but
since 2006, researchers have experiential it brighten and weaken every 45
minutes, presently like a light bulb on a dimmer control.
Now, latest observations by Will Dunn, a PhD student
studying astrophysics at the University College London, with the help of
Chandra X-ray observatory and a few other telescopes, one more twist has been
observed to this stunning enigma.
In a latest research paper published in Journal of
Geophysical Research, Dunn and his co-authors explain what took place when a
coronal mass ejection—a massive blur of magnetized plasma that break out from
the surface of the Sun—hit the Jupiter’s magnetosphere in- 2011.
When this sort of occasion occurs on Earth, we get the
northern lights. On Jupiter, the forever-aurora gets larger & brighter.
So, why Jupiter’s
northern lights drop to a specific tempo, & why that flickering accelerated
throughout the 2011 solar storm? These are question that planetary researchers
would love to solve & answer.
Dunn said “We think that when a coronal mass ejection
crashes into Jupiter’s magnetosphere, it compress it by about 2 million
kilometers”
Jupiter’s aurora also help in sympathetic how magnetic
fields defend planets from influential stellar outbreaks. And that in order may
ultimately help in the hunt for life beyond our solar- system.

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