Scientists at the University of Reading are playing a vital role in helping Nasa photograph Jupiter.<\/p>\n
The academics have been using the Keck telescope to photograph the planet remotely.<\/p>\n
In the past they have had to travel to special facilities or Hawaii to record their pictures but now they can control a telescope remotely and download the images of Jupiter within seconds.<\/p>\n
Research Associate Professor in Planetary Astronomy at the university, Dr James O’Donoghue said: “It’s really exciting that we can do this cutting-edge space research right from Reading.”<\/p>\n
He explained that the telescope observations enable them “to take Jupiter’s temperature and watch how its brightness changes”.<\/p>\n
He said this was particularly special around “the poles where spectacular light shows called auroras happen”.<\/p>\n
He said: “These auroras are incredibly powerful, driven by hundreds of trillions of watts of energy. <\/p>\n
“Monitoring these auroras helps us understand how energy flows through Jupiter’s atmosphere and how the planet interacts with its surrounding space environment.”<\/p>\n
Images from the telescope show Jupiter in infrared and reveal bright auroras at the planet’s poles. <\/p>\n
The photographs also show a black circle in front of Jupiter, which is a moon called Callisto. It is so bright that the pixels appear black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists at the University of Reading are playing a vital role in helping Nasa photograph Jupiter. The academics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-32465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}