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Aurora astronomy
The "image of Jupiter shows concentrations of auroral X-rays near the north and south magnetic poles." The Chandra X-ray Observatory accumulated X-ray counts from Jupiter for its entire 10-hour rotation on December 18, 2000. Note that X-rays from the entire globe of Jupiter are detected.

Second is an ultraviolet image of aurora at Jupiter's north pole by the Hubble Space Telescope.