NASA detected something coming out of the black hole for the first time using the NuSTAR telescope, which it launched into space in 2012. Years have passed since this detected image, and this time a Jupiter image came from the NuSTAR telescope, illuminating the 30-year-old mystery.
The mystery of aurorae around Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, was recently solved with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. This time, the highest-energy X-rays determined to come from Jupiter by the NuSTAR Space Telescope were imaged.
revealed why it couldn’t be imaged 30 years ago
The image acquired by NASA’s NuSTAR Space Telescope has been recorded as the highest-energy light ever seen on a planet other than Earth. passed. The detection of this high-energy X-ray radiation light also solved a 30-year-old mystery. The Ulysses spacecraft, which NASA sent to study the Sun in 1992, failed to detect any X-rays as it passed near Jupiter. Researchers think this is because X-rays become dimmer at higher energies and Ulysses’ system does not have a system to detect these rays.
The existence of X-rays around the planet had been detected in previous studies. Low-energy X-rays were observed to be emitted from the planet’s auroras by NASA’s Chandra and XMM-Newton observatories, but there was no evidence of such high energy. With the new observation from NuSTAR, researchers have confirmed for the first time that electrons from Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io create high-energy X-rays.
Kaya Mori, an astrophysicist at Columbia University and lead author on this study, said in a statement, “It’s very difficult for planets to produce X-rays in the range detected by NuSTAR, but Jupiter has an enormous magnetic field and spins very fast. . These two features mean that the planet’s magnetosphere acts like a giant particle accelerator. This is what makes higher energy emissions possible.”
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