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James Webb Detects Bizarre Activity Over 365 Million Miles Away On Jupiter — Scientists Stunned
The James Webb telescope discovered some “mysterious” activity on Jupiter more than 365 million miles away, leaving a group of scientists perplexed.
According to recent measurements of Jupiter’s poles, there appears to be unexpected activity taking place, which the specialists have been trying to figure out.
As the world’s leading space research observatory, NASA claims that the James Webb Space Telescope is “solving mysteries” in our solar system, peering beyond to distant worlds orbiting other stars, and exploring the enigmatic origins and structures of our universe and our role in it.
This comes after the telescope revealed that the shimmering lights at the poles flash and flare rather than glow constantly.
Together with a near-infrared camera that captured quick images of the planet, the telescope was used to record Jupiter’s lights.
The experts coordinated with images captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to compare the gas giant’s ultraviolet and infrared activity.
Jonathan Nichols, who led a research team at the University of Leicester, said, “What made these observations even more special is that we also took pictures simultaneously in the ultraviolet with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.”
After discovering that the images taken didn’t always match, Nichols added, “This has left us scratching our heads. In order to cause the combination of brightness seen by both Webb and Hubble, we need to have an apparently impossible combination of high quantities of very low energy particles hitting the atmosphere – like a tempest of drizzle! We still don’t understand how this happens.”
This discovery has the potential to alter our understanding of Jupiter’s auroras, which were previously believed to fluctuate over a few minutes.
On the other hand, data from the James Webb telescope indicates that these changes could potentially take place in a few seconds.
Nichols continued, “What a Christmas present it was – it just blew me away. We wanted to see how quickly the auroras change, expecting it to fade in and out ponderously, perhaps over a quarter of an hour or so.”
“Instead, we observed the whole auroral region fizzing and popping with light, sometimes varying by the second.”
This mismatch between the Hubble and Webb data has provided fresh insights on planetary weather, and the team plans to investigate the larger implications for Jupiter’s atmosphere and space environment.
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