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 auroras on Jupiter are generated in a similar way to the auroras on Earth. Particles are slurped up into the planetary magnetosphere, and accelerated to tremendous speeds as they are whisked away to the poles. At the poles, they are dumped out into the atmosphere, where their ionizing interactions with atmospheric particles generate a glow.

Thought Earth's auroras are stunning? NASA has released new images of these heavenly light displays on Jupiter — and they're bigger and hundreds of times brighter than the northern lights on our puny world.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals mega auroras on Jupiter, hundreds of times brighter than Earth's, triggered by solar storms.