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The Alaska Science Pod was created to give voice to the people tackling big scientific questions in the Last Frontier. Through a series of monthly episodes, the podcast will feature research stories ranging from volcanoes, earthquakes, and auroras to climate change, anthropology, paleontology and wildfires. Any natural phenomena in Alaska and the people who study them are fair game.
Hosted by Ned Rozell a science writer of more than two-and-a-half decades the podcast is a production of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. The first episode is now available and can be accessed on the web and on streaming services such as Spotify, Stitcher and Amazon Music. New episodes drop the first Tuesday of every month.
NASA s Hubble Space Telescope made this close-up view of an electric-blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles away on the giant planet Jupiter in 2010.
Jupiter’s auroras are the most powerful in the solar system. What’s puzzling is, despite the magnitudes of these potentials at Jupiter, they are observed only sometimes and are not the source of the most intense auroras, as they are on Earth.
At Jupiter, the brightest auroras are caused by some turbulent acceleration process that remains poorly understood.
Peter Delamere, a professor of space physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, is among an international team of 13 researchers who have made a fundamental discovery related to the aurora of our solar system‘s most giant planet.
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New Research Reveals Secret To Jupiter’s Curious Aurora Activity
Auroral displays continue to intrigue scientists, whether the bright lights shine over Earth or over another planet. The lights hold clues to the makeup of a planet’s magnetic field and how that field operates.
New research about Jupiter proves that point and adds to the intrigue.
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Peter Delamere, a professor of space physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, is among an international team of 13 researchers who have made a key discovery related to the aurora of our solar system’s largest planet.
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Auroral displays continue to intrigue scientists, whether the bright lights shine over Earth or over another planet. The lights hold clues to the makeup of a planet s magnetic field and how that field operates.
New research about Jupiter proves that point and adds to the intrigue.
Peter Delamere, a professor of space physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, is among an international team of 13 researchers who have made a key discovery related to the aurora of our solar system s largest planet.
The team s work was published April 9, 2021, in the journal
Science Advances. The research paper, titled How Jupiter s unusual magnetospheric topology structures its aurora, was written by Binzheng Zhang of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Hong Kong; Delamere is the primary co-author.