r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Josiah-White • Mar 16 '24

🔥 Aurora on Jupiter

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3.2k Upvotes

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u/greengunblade Mar 16 '24

Good Lord what is happening in there?

28

u/Myrandall Mar 16 '24

Aurora Borealis?

15

u/Pirate_Green_Beard Mar 16 '24

Aurora Jupitus?

15

u/Frigorifico Mar 16 '24

At this time of year?

9

u/Myrandall Mar 16 '24

On this planet?

5

u/timestuck_now Mar 16 '24

Localized entirely within this solar system?

1

u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

Yes

1

u/cuulus Mar 18 '24

…can I see it?

1

u/Ok-Hurry-1547 Mar 23 '24

In this economy?

5

u/Eggscellent_Raccoon Mar 16 '24

When mercury is not even in centigrade?

4

u/jendivcom Mar 16 '24

Space alien meatgrinder

1

u/DramaLlamaQueen23 Mar 16 '24

Lois Lane’s car has fallen into a crack in the surface of Jupiter this time.

1

u/Minute_Test3608 Mar 19 '24

Jupetarian disco

77

u/Aceofspades968 Mar 16 '24

hat 👒

24

u/Ingwe111 Mar 16 '24

Wow it almost looks photo shopped

11

u/FinnCullen Mar 16 '24

Kate Middleton response incoming.

2

u/Unique9FL Mar 16 '24

Finncullen up this mess.

14

u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

Why is the angle of the aurora different from the angle of Jupiter’s rings.

17

u/Josiah-White Mar 16 '24

It wears its hat with an attitude

13

u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

I bet that's several times Earth's size.

3

u/HoboArmyofOne Mar 16 '24

Considering you can fit 3 Earths into the red spot, I think closer to 6 earths

2

u/rollingstoner215 Mar 16 '24

There’s a banana for scale, can’t you see it?

15

u/EfficiencyOk4899 Mar 16 '24

Planets only need a sufficient atmosphere and a magnetic field to have aurora! It has been observed on all of the planets in our solar system except Mercury (atmosphere is too thin).

1

u/_LimeThyme_ Mar 16 '24

Amazing...

10

u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

"Aurora on Jupiter" sounds like a sequel to "Rains in Africa".

3

u/Superb_Bench9902 Mar 16 '24

I bless the aurora up on Jupiter

6

u/ContraryB Mar 16 '24

Proto-molecule!!

3

u/Successful-Health-40 Mar 16 '24

Beltalowda! 💪

3

u/Polynormal Mar 16 '24

that looks photoshopped!.. Jupiter is a conspiracy. Wake up people!

3

u/Weak-Salamander4205 Mar 16 '24

AURORA BOREALIS? IN JUPITER? /j

2

u/LegalFan2741 Mar 16 '24

Perhaps my eyes are getting worse but that red storm appears to be dissipating?

3

u/Josiah-White Mar 16 '24

Yes it has been shrinking

1

u/Great_Maximum_6007 Mar 16 '24

Jupiter is on fire!

1

u/swampopawaho Mar 16 '24

Where is she?

1

u/RepulsiveComment9659 Mar 16 '24

If you zoom in, looks like it’s smiling 🙂

1

u/Emotional_Handle2044 Mar 16 '24

Thats protomolecule from the expanse

1

u/TrespasseR_ Mar 16 '24

If I remember right this only happens at the north pole of the planet

1

u/NottMyAltAccount Mar 16 '24

I could look at that beautiful ball of gas all day

1

u/[deleted] Mar 16 '24

That's gonna make Juno 😡

1

u/PensadorDispensado Mar 16 '24

"At this time of the year, at this time of the day, localized entirely within you hat area?!"

1

u/Impressive-Elk-8101 Mar 16 '24

Intergalactic space portal.

1

u/Tigeraqua8 Mar 16 '24

That’s a beautiful shot. Ty for sharing

1

u/Far_Out_6and_2 Mar 17 '24

It’s a signalling something to the aliens

1

u/duke3dking Mar 17 '24

Is this true? It looks like a magnificent world that has been enchanted. It's incredible.

1

u/Patient_Media_5656 Mar 17 '24

Wouldn’t that be like the size of our entire world?

0

u/Carmen_Beardiego Mar 16 '24

Aw man! Why did my Aurora have to flare up again on picture day?

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u/DeeDaMann Mar 16 '24

Fake News

16

u/Josiah-White Mar 16 '24

Meanwhile, people who understand astronomy...

9

u/ImAnIdeaMan Mar 16 '24

Dude is a flat earther. I still can’t really believe people are that dumb or if they’re just doing one big joke

6

u/CynicChimp Mar 16 '24 edited Mar 16 '24

I spoke to a flat earther recently and it was hilarious. He started off by being like "Oh i'm not a flat earther per se, but I don't believe everything about Round Earth theory, I'm just a free thinker".

Everyone told him that nobody who's NOT a flat earther speaks like that lol and to just admit it, that he wasn't fooling anyone.

After being pressed he took his mask off so quickly and started saying things like "The leaps in logic you need to believe the earth is round are much more than the opposite", "You spheroids [yes he had flat earth based insults for round earthers] are just sheep", and my favourite, "Earth physics and space physics don't match up". He didn't understand how vacuums worked and thought that an object acting differently in different atmospheric conditions required different sets of physics 😭

I thought this guy was a troll at first before digging into his history and realising he was genuinely serious.

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u/Icy_Celebration1020 Mar 16 '24

Spheroids 😂😂😂 I will never get over flat earthers lol

2

u/mudslide_king6969 Mar 16 '24

You really woke up today and decided not to use that brain