Hubble Telescope Captured the Aurora on the Uranus

Yocha News- For the first time scientists have captured images of the aurora phenomenon called ice giant planet, Uranus. This possibility is only a fraction of a rare phenomenon that looks and scientists believe the planet has other unique things that have not been revealed.

Reported by Spacedaily, Wednesday (18/04/2012), the aurora phenomenon captured by the Hubble Space Telescope observation. Aurora observations have shown flashes of light that appears, but does not last long. The light is different, because the phenomena occurring auroras on Earth.

In the new observations with the telescope base on planet Earth, the researchers detected a few light spots on the planet Uranus that tertampak through the Hubble telescope. Unlike aurora on the planet earth with glittering light green and purple color that lasts about an hour, the aurora was detected in the planet Uranus seems to last only a few minutes.

In general, the phenomenon of the aurora is a feature of the magnetosphere is an area on a planet controlled by the magnetic field and solar wind is formed from (solar wind). The solar wind is a stream of charged particles suatau that spreads in all directions from the sun's outer atmosphere, known as the crown.

"The planet Uranus is discussed in detail only once, during the Voyager spacecraft flying in 1986. Since then, we have not had a chance to make new observations of the magnetosphere that are not common in this world, "said researchers from Paris, Laurent Lamy.

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