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SEVERAL investigators have unsuccessfully searched for Hα emission from the planet Jupiter1–3. In December 1967, Schwitters4 obtained a spectrogram of Jupiter containing one feature in the Hα line that could be interpreted as localized Hα emission from the limb of the planet. This feature could have been a plate defect, however. The purpose of this article is to report new results that may be interpreted as Hα auroral activity on Jupiter.
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HUNTER, J. Hα Auroral Activity on Jupiter. Nature 223, 388–389 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223388a0
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