Scientists solve 40-year mystery over Jupiter’s X-ray aurora

A research team co-led by Dr William Dunn and Professor Graziella Branduardi-Raymont (both UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes.

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