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Scientists at the University of Reading have discovered a solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere ... it changed the planet's atmosphere was very unexpected.

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The compression of the magnetosphere by the solar wind appears to have intensified auroral heating at Jupiter's poles, causing the upper atmosphere to expand and spill hot gas typically confined ...

A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot ... before -- and the way it changed the planet's atmosphere was very unexpected.

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant ... pattern scientists observed in Jupiter's atmosphere using the Keck Observatory in Hawai'i.