After all, there are magnetic tornadoes as big as Earth visible on Jupiter, which have forced big astronomers to scratch their heads.

Science News Desk – BriThe magnetic storms arising on Haspati have surprised scientists. These Earth-sized magnetic storms come and then disappear. These dark oval spots were first observed by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 1990s. Storms are also visible in photographs of Jupiter taken in 2015 and 2022. The Cassini spacecraft also observed these dark oval spots during its flight in 2000. Now in a paper published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have indicated that these storms may be related to strange processes occurring in Jupiter’s magnetic field.

These oval shapes form in a month and disappear in a few weeks. These oval spots are as big as Jupiter’s famous ‘Great Red Spot’. This spot has been visible on Jupiter for centuries. According to new research, magnetic storms are visible only in ultraviolet wavelengths. Because they absorb more UV light than surrounding areas, they look like dark spots.

These spots are present in the haze at Jupiter’s poles, just below bright areas like the aurorae on Earth. The new study shows that these spots are common at Jupiter’s south pole, but rare at the north pole. Between 1994 and 2022, 8 Southern UV Dark Spots (SUDO) appeared in Hubble telescope images. However, only two Northern UV Dark Spots (NUDO) were observed in 25 images of the North Pole.