Astronomers have detected high-frequency X-rays coming from Jupiter

Astronomers working with NASA's NuSTAR space observatory have reported that they have detected high-frequency X-rays from Jupiter.

For planets, such radiation is very rare, but scientists have found an explanation for this phenomenon and, as it turned out, this is quite normal for Jupiter.

Jupiter is a unique planet in the solar system, and high-frequency as well as low-frequency X-rays – this is the norm

As you know, X-rays occupy the region between gamma radiation and ultraviolet light. At the same time, their wavelength is rather short, but they have high energy and are absolutely immune to the human eye.

Scientists have long been studying Jupiter in all available ways, and here earlier the Chandra and XMM-Newton observatories EKA has detected and studied low-energy X-rays that come from the auroras Jupiter.

This phenomenon was explained by the influence of ions, which are ejected by the satellite Io, and then due to the effects of a strong electromagnetic field are redirected into the atmosphere of Jupiter, where the release occurs energy.

But as NASA's NuSTAR observations have shown, high-frequency X-rays also come from Jupiter. Scientists tried to explain this unique phenomenon in this way: the planet Jupiter has a powerful magnetic field, which, when it rotates at a high speed, and, in fact, such conditions turn the planet's magnetosphere into a giant accelerator particles.

So scientists managed to find out that the high-frequency radiation that comes from Jupiter is primarily caused by collision of individual electrons with charged atoms directly in the atmosphere of the planet and their sharp deceleration.

It is this “sharp deceleration” that is the cause of the loss of electron energy, which occurs in the form of X-rays. This process is also called "bremsstrahlung".

The scientists also reported that they continue to study this phenomenon and it is quite possible that over time it will be possible to find more evidence or new factors that explain this radiation.

Well, scientists have once again confirmed how unique and mysterious the world surrounds us, and the more scientists study it, the more new and unusual they find in it.

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