The scientists also took images of Jupiter’s auroras with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope at the same time Webb made its observations, capturing them in ultraviolet light. They uncovered a strange discrepancy between the two sets of data, the brightest light observed by Webb had no real counterpart in the Hubble images.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system's largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth.

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth.