Discovery of Saturn`s auroral heartbeat

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 06:07 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists led by Dr Jonathan Nichols of the University of Leicester has discovered that Saturn`s aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn`s upper atmosphere near the poles, pulses roughly once per Saturnian day.

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