Hubble Telescope Shoots Impressive Dawn on Jupiter

On July 4, the Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit and promises to send incredible images of the largest planet in the Solar System. However, four days earlier the Hubble telescope managed to capture an impressive image of the space titan: a bright blue dawn on one of the planet's poles.

Through the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph telescope, Hubble obtained ultraviolet images of blue lights flashing in the sky of Jupiter. The auroras also happen here on Earth and originate when highly energized particles collide with gas atoms as they approach the magnetic poles of a planet.

On Jupiter, the auroras are gigantic - even bigger than Earth itself! They are also much more energetic and never stop. That is, let's hope Juno gets more images of this show! Hubble plans to study how solar winds influence auroras, especially on the giant planet. On Earth, the best places to see auroras are Finland, Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and Iceland.