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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday April 15 2017, @09:16AM   Printer-friendly
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🚀 - Space - Scientists from NASA have been studying Uranus through the Hubble telescope and during this time they have seen many bursts of solar wind hit the planet. Then they realized that this wind was behind huge intense auroras coming of Uranus which then circled the planet. It was also said that the magnetic poles that disappeared in Uranus during 1986 have now been found.

[...] The findings are one part of a study that is ongoing into auroras found on other planets. Just as when they happen on Earth, the light shows are spectacular on other planets. They are caused by the solar winds charged particles or cosmic rays that get caught by the ionosphere of the planet and magnetic field and then crash into the gas particles, which then creates bursts of light, which are seen by astronomers or the inhabitants of the planet.

Some of the first pictures of Uranus were taken by Voyager 2 in 1986 and since that time NASA has relied on telescopes that are based on Earth for pictures. The Hubble telescope first took photographs of Uranus when the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph that had been installed on the telescope was repaired and it went back into service. In 2012 and 2014 ultraviolet photos had been taken. The timing was in coordination with two huge bursts of wind tracked to Uranus which caused the huge auroras.

http://www.disclose.tv/news/nasa_captured_something_huge_coming_out_of_uranus/138523

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Additional reading:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubble-spots-auroras-on-uranus
http://www.space.com/36416-uranus-auroras-hubble-voyager-photos.html


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday April 15 2017, @02:55PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday April 15 2017, @02:55PM (#494431) Journal

    Those things that looks like white clouds are actually auroras?
    As the atmosphere is mostly hydrogen the color of excited atoms should be pink?

    The rest like helium and methane also seems to be on the red side of colors.

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