Credit: John Clarke (University of Michigan), and NASA/ESA

Jupiter's auroral images are superimposed on a Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2image of the entire planet. The auroras are brilliant curtains of light in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Jovian auroral storms, like Earth's, develop when electrically charged particles trapped in the magnetic field surrounding the planet spiral inward at high energies toward the north and south magnetic poles.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9804d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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