Saturn’s auroras sure do look pretty

saturn aurora

Here on Earth, auroras are pretty neat sight to see. The phenomenon, commonly called the "Northern Lights," is fairly well understood by scientists. They occur when charged particles from the Sun are funneled towards Earth's poles by our planet's magnetic field. Those particles then interact with various gasses in Earth's atmosphere and create a brilliant light show in the night sky.

We might think of auroras as being special to Earth, but in reality they are possible on any planet with a magnetic field and an atmosphere. Saturn happens to be one of those planets, and researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope recently observed what auroras look like on Saturn's north pole.

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