NASA's Hubble Telescope caught breathtaking images of 'northern lights' on Saturn

ESA/Hubble, NASA, A. Simon (GSFC) and the OPAL Team, J. DePasquale (STScI), L. Lamy (Observatoire de Paris)

• Earth isn't the only planet over which the northern lights appear from time to time.
• Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn also have their own magnificent auroras.
• NASA just released stunning images of Saturn's aurora, taken in 2017 by the Hubble space telescope.

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In 2017, the Hubble space telescope spent seven months flying around Saturn, using a spectrograph to take pictures of Saturn before and after the summer solstice — and when NASA released the images they revealed an unusual and breathtaking phenomenon - Saturn's own 'northern lights'.

Earth isn't the only planet over which the northern lights appear from time to time; Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn also have their own beautiful auroras — and before and after the summer solstice is the best time to catch them.

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