Hubble Telescope captures stunning images of Saturn’s north pole aurora

The images were taken before and after the Saturnian northern summer solstice.

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Saturn’s northern auroras.

A Nasa telescope has sent back photos of beautiful fluttering auroras at the north pole of Saturn.

It is the Hubble Space Telescope’s most comprehensive imagery of the planet’s aurora to date.

The images, which are presented as a composite, were taken before and after the Saturnian northern summer solstice in 2017 and early 2018.

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