Aurora on Saturn
by Doc Braham
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Aurora on Saturn
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Doc Braham
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Photograph - Photography, Pop Art, Contemporary, Black & White, Portfolio, Original Art, High Class Fashion, Painting, Conceptual, Mixed Media, Abstract, Contemporary, Success, Unique, Odd, Quirky
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Seen from space — as in this Hubble Space Telescope image — an aurora appears as a ring of light circling a planet's polar region, where magnetic poles typically reside. Auroral displays are initiated when charged particles in space collide with a planet's magnetic field and stream into the upper atmosphere. Collisions with gases in the planet's atmosphere produce flashes of glowing energy in the form of light and radio waves.
Scientists had long believed Saturn's auroras possess properties akin to both Earth and Jupiter. Like Earth's, they were thought to be influenced by the solar wind. Like Jupiter's, they were assumed to be influenced by a ring of ions and charged particles encircling the planet.
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November 12th, 2019
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