{"id":695639,"date":"2021-07-09T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=695639"},"modified":"2021-07-09T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:36:09","slug":"scientists-solve-40-year-mystery-over-jupiters-x-ray-aurora-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=695639","title":{"rendered":"Scientists solve 40-year mystery over Jupiter&#039;s X-ray aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers combined close-up observations of Jupiter&#8217;s environment by NASA&#8217;s satellite Juno, which is currently orbiting the planet, with simultaneous X-ray measurements from the European Space Agency&#8217;s XMM-Newton observatory (which is in Earth&#8217;s own orbit). The X-rays are part of Jupiter&#8217;s aurora &#8212; bursts of visible and invisible light that occur when charged particles interact with the planet&#8217;s atmosphere. A similar phenomenon occurs on Earth, creating the northern lights, but Jupiter&#8217;s is much more powerful, releasing hundreds of gigawatts of energy, enough to briefly power all of human civilization.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/07\/210709193609.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Scientists solve 40-year mystery over Jupiter&#8217;s X-ray aurora<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers combined close-up observations of Jupiter&#8217;s environment by NASA&#8217;s satellite Juno, which is currently orbiting the planet, with simultaneous X-ray measurements from the European Space Agency&#8217;s XMM-Newton observatory (which is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}