esahubble_opo9804c January 7th, 1998
Credit: John Clarke (University of Michigan), and NASA/ESA
Images taken in ultraviolet light by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) show both auroras, the oval- shaped objects in the inset photos. While the Hubble telescope has obtained images of Jupiter's northern and southern lights since 1990, the new STIS instrument is 10 times more sensitive than earlier cameras.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9804c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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