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Dazzling 'dawn storms' that illuminate Jupiter's poles are 10x more intense than the gas giant's regular auroras.
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00:00The gas giant Jupiter has shimmering auroras circling its poles,
00:05and new images from NASA's Juno mission are shining a light on these brilliant displays.
00:10In the auroras, a brief but intense period of brightening sometimes happens in the early morning.
00:16These are called dawn storms, and Juno's images offered a perspective of the storms that scientists had never seen before.
00:24Telescopes on Earth and the Hubble telescope in space previously spotted Jupiter's dawn storms, but they only captured partial views.
00:33Juno's ultraviolet spectrograph was the first imager to peer down at dawn storms from overhead for eight hours at a time
00:40so that scientists could watch the storms as they formed and grew.
00:44They found that the dawn storms were born in darkness, forming on the planet's nighttime side as isolated glowing spots in auroras.
00:53As Jupiter rotates, the storms travel to the daytime side and glow even brighter, spewing up to thousands of gigawatts of ultraviolet light into space.
01:03And at their brightest, dawn storms produce at least ten times more energy than Jupiter's typical auroras do.
01:23A year in ì´ˆ-priot light in the sky and the sun will be here for the sun, the moon will be here for the sun to see the sky.
01:29At the moment, the sun is moving to the sky across the sky.
01:31If we can wait to see the sun and vaporize, it is very cold.
01:32A few hours are becoming the sun to see the sky—this is the sun to see the sun, the sun to see the sun.
01:35We can see the sun and the sun, the sun can see the sun but are holding up to the sky across the sky.
01:37And the sky is the sun that at night.
01:39It's the sun for the sun.
01:41It's either sun, the sky is about to surely e-
01:42It's above the sun which is the sun.
01:45It's 13.
01:46The sun is his light.
01:47So there was a new light on the sky in the sky.

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