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Jupiter’s auroras sparkle with mystery — and Webb just uncovered a cosmic riddle scientists didn’t see coming.

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The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. Early in the history of the solar system, a massive protoplanet plowed into a young Earth.

Io is an infamous world teeming with violent volcanoes spewing particles that can escape the moon's gravity and sneak into Jupiter's orbit. As Jupiter captures all of the charged particles ...