A comet studied by NASA has its own Northern Lights, experts say. 9News
comet-hunting mission helped reveal that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora.NASA said: "On Earth, aurora are generated when electrically charged particles speeding from the Sun hit the upper atmosphere to create colourful shimmers of green, white, and red.
Data from NASA instruments aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta comet-hunting mission helped reveal that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora. Dancing purple and green, the Northern Lights made a faint, rare appearance in the skies over Walla Walla, Washinton, USA "Elsewhere in the solar system, Jupiter and some of its moons – as well as Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and even Mars – have all exhibited their own version of northern lights. But the phenomena had yet to be documented in comets."
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