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Saturn's Aurora Defy Scientists' Expectations

Aurora on Saturn behave in ways different from how scientists have thought possible for the last 25 years, according to new research by a team of astronomers led by John Clarke, a professor in BU`s Department of Astronomy and in the department`s Center for Space Physics. The team`s findings have overturned theories about how Saturn`s magnetosphere behaves and how its aurora are generated. Their results will be published in the February 17 issue of Nature.