Jupiter’s lights are also affected by a combination of the planet spinning really quickly — a day on Jupiter is only 10 hours long — and volcanic material pumped out by Jupiter’s moon Io.

While we're wowed by these images, scientists are anxiously watching NASA's Juno spacecraft as it prepares to enter orbit around Jupiter on Monday. The $1 billion ship has spent almost five years ...

Jupiter's aurora drove a heat wave as wide as 10 Earths Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon, on the night of September 3, 2012. Courtesy of David Cartier, Sr./NASA ...

This isn't the first time Hubble has turned its attention to Jupiter's aurorae while space probes approached the planet. It worked in conjunction with the Cassini spacecraft in 2000 to do the same ...