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... and in the ultraviolet.


While studying the high-energy light radiated ra·di·ate  
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v.intr.
1. To send out rays or waves.

2. To issue or emerge in rays or waves: Heat radiated from the stove.
 by Jupiter's auroras, John T. Clarke of the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries.  in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as  and his colleagues have found some intriguing in·trigue  
n.
1.
a. A secret or underhand scheme; a plot.

b. The practice of or involvement in such schemes.

2. A clandestine love affair.

v.
 activity. Time-lapse images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's imaging spectrograph reveal that within the auroral regions, "flares come up for 10 seconds and become as bright as anything else and then go away to almost nothing," Clarke told SCIENCE NEWS. The flares appear and disappear independently of the overall brightness of the auroras, indicating that the auroras have a variable structure generated by more than one force.
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Title Annotation:observations of auroras from Jupiter
Author:R.C.
Publication:Science News
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:May 29, 1999
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