TIL that despite Saturn being 8 times further from the Sun than the Earth, it also has an Aurora Borealis but is only visible by ultraviolet light.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/saturns-auroras/#:~:text=However%2C%20unlike%20on%20Earth%2C%20Saturn's,and%20independent%20of%20planet%20rotation.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghsoum/til_that_despite_saturn_being_8_times_further/
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/saturns-auroras/#:~:text=However%2C%20unlike%20on%20Earth%2C%20Saturn's,and%20independent%20of%20planet%20rotation.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ghsoum/til_that_despite_saturn_being_8_times_further/
Saturn's Auroras - NASA
Saturn was 810 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers) away when the Hubble Space Telescope took this ultraviolet image of the planet, revealing a vivid auroral display rising thousands of miles above the cloud tops over both of the planet's poles.NASA
