Best known for its Giant Red Spot, now Jupiter has another stunning decoration: An aurora at the top of the solar system's largest planet. Images of auroras on Jupiter — which are larger than ...

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.

Even stranger, while the southern aurora pulsed rhythmically every nine to 12 minutes (it had previously been seen to pulse regularly every 40 to 45 minutes), the northern aurora was more erratic.

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 ...

On Jupiter, Fourth of July fireworks last year-round. New images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a new feature of the gas giant: brilliant blue auroras. “These auroras are very dramatic ...

This aurora is hundreds of times more energetic than Earth's northern lights. — -- Scientists have unveiled images of a brilliant X-ray aurora on Jupiter triggered by a massive solar storm ...

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 ...

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 ...