{"id":124743,"date":"2021-07-09T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-solve-40-year-mystery-over-jupiters-spectacularly-powerful-x-ray-aurora"},"modified":"2021-07-09T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T21:22:39","slug":"scientists-solve-40-year-mystery-over-jupiters-spectacularly-powerful-x-ray-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-solve-40-year-mystery-over-jupiters-spectacularly-powerful-x-ray-aurora","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Solve 40-Year Mystery Over Jupiter\u2019s Spectacularly Powerful X-ray Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-solve-40-year-mystery-over-jupiters-spectacularly-powerful-x-ray-aurora.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A research team has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A research team co-led by UCL (University College London) has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The X-rays are part of Jupiter\u2019s aurora \u2014 bursts of visible and invisible light that occur when charged particles interact with the planet\u2019s atmosphere. A similar phenomenon occurs on Earth, creating the northern lights, but Jupiter\u2019s is much more powerful, releasing hundreds of gigawatts of energy, enough to briefly power all of human civilization.*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes. A research team co-led by UCL (University College London) has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes. The X-rays are part of Jupiter\u2019s aurora [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}