Jupiter's X-Ray Auroras (IMAGE)

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Jupiter's X-Ray Auroras

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Jupiter's X-ray emission (in magenta and white, for the brightest spot, overlaid on a Hubble Space Telescope optical image) captured by Chandra as a coronal mass ejection (CME) reaches the planet on 2 October 2011, and then after the solar wind subsides on 4 October 2011. The Northern Lights seem to expand southwards and the brightening is clearly visible as the CME arrives.

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Credit: Joseph DePasquale, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Chandra X-ray Center.

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