Image: Jupiter.Aurora.HST.UV
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Description: English: image of Jupiter aurora in UV, taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope • STScI-PRC00-38 Bright streaks and dots are caused by magnetic flux tubes connecting Jupiter to its largest moons: Io: bright streak on the far left Ganymede: bright dot below center Europa: dot right of Ganymede dot
Title: Jupiter.Aurora.HST.UV
Credit: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2000/38/image/a/, http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001219.html
Author: John T. Clarke (University of Michigan), ESA, NASA
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