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witold

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Illuminating Saturn's auroral heartbeat
« on: August 16, 2010, 04:41:39 AM »
Using the Hubble Space Telescope to collect images of Saturn's glowing ultraviolet aurorae, space scientists have found that these displays pulse in time with Saturn's rotation.

http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1008/04saturn/

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Re: Illuminating Saturn's auroral heartbeat
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2010, 09:56:12 PM »
Well...we learn new things all the time.

Very neat!