{"id":796052,"date":"2025-05-12T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796052"},"modified":"2025-05-12T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:45:11","slug":"close-up-observations-of-auroras-on-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796052","title":{"rendered":"Close-up observations of auroras on Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>The NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our Solar System\u2019s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet\u2019s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms of gas. Jupiter\u2019s large and powerful magnetic field captures charged particles and accelerates them to tremendous speeds. These speedy particles slam into the planet\u2019s atmosphere at high energies, which excites the gas and causes it to glow.<\/p>\n<p>Webb\u2019s unique capabilities are providing new insights into the auroras on Jupiter. The telescope\u2019s sensitivity allows astronomers to increase the shutter speed to capture fleeting auroral features. These observations of Jupiter\u2019s auroras were captured with Webb\u2019s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) on 25 December 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Close-up observations of auroras on Jupiter (December 2023)\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/If0VpfERgJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/05\/Close-up_observations_of_auroras_on_Jupiter?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our Solar System\u2019s largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796052","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=796052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}