+ - Hubble Spots Auroras on Uranus->
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sciencehabit writes "The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted transient aruroas on the Uranus. The ephemeral glows appeared near the planet's north magnetic pole, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters. As on Earth, interactions between the solar wind and the planet's magnetic field generate the auroras. The new observations should help scientists better understand Uranus's odd magnetic field, whose axis is both offset from the center of the planet and tilts at an angle of 60 from the rotational axis."
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