HUGE OBSERVED AURORAS ON JUPITER

In 2011, the space telescope Chandra managed to observe the 

gas giant Jupiter while under a gigantic aurora borealis, eight times more luminous and hundreds of times more powerful than those we observe on Earth. in a new study to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

It's not just on Earth that we can observe these wonders that are the Northern Lights. While it is usually designed to study black holes, galaxies and distant stars in the field of space telescope Chandra observed sometimes even within our Solar System. This was the case in 2011 with the observation of Jupiter, then hit by a stream of dense particles emitted during a solar storm that produced a coronal mass ejection.

Observed for the first time in the X-rays, particle flux fiercely hit Jupiter's magnetosphere, pushing its border of over a million and a half kilometers inland. This caused huge and very energetic aurora borealis, whose area was larger than the entire Earth.

Comments that will help to know more about the relationship between the solar wind and the magnetosphere of Jupiter, and what effect it has on the planet. "There is a constant power struggle between the solar wind and the magnetosphere of Jupiter. We want to understand this interaction and what effect it has on the planet. By studying how the auroras vary, we can discover more about the region of space controlled by the magnetic field of Jupiter and how it is influenced by the sun. Understanding this relationship is important for the magnetic objects are countless across the galaxy, as exoplanets, brown dwarfs or neutron stars,"
said William Dunn, lead author of the study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

In a month July 2016, this study of the gas giant planet and its magnetic field should be facilitated by the arrival of the Juno probe and its eight scientific instruments.