NASA space probe spots northern lights on Jupiter Earth is not the only planet with northern lights Tags: If you thought the northern lights were a rare sight for us earthlings, you may want to think again. Those beautiful colors most visible in the Arctic and Antarctic are not only found on Earth: Jupiter has northern lights, too. Northern lights here on Earth result from charged particles from the sun that interact with the earth’s magnetosphere to create that glow that we see. There’s a continuous ring of that light around the earth’s poles -- but we can’t see it here in Michigan until a solar eruption occurs and accelerates the stream of particles, pushing that ring southward.