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'Northern lights' spotted on Jupiter

23 March 2016

Research led by PhD student William Dunn (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) has found that solar storms trigger Jupiter's intense 'Northern Lights' by generating a new X-ray aurora that is hundreds of times more energetic than Earth's aurora borealis. Read: Daily Mail, More: Buzzfeed, Motherboard