Jupiter’s radio storms can be heard by an AM radio

Through the loudspeakers of short-wave radios like AM people can hear Jupiter’s intense radio storms  late at night when Jupiter is high in the sky.

We can listen to this online, thanks to a live audio link to the University of Florida Radio Observatory, supported by NASA.

According to NASA, Jovian radio storms, first noticed in 1955, are beamed to Earth by radio lasers near Jupiter’s magnetic poles.

Lasers on Earth are man-made from wires, crystals and other electronics, whereas Jupiter’s radio lasers are natural, made of plasmas (ionized gases) and magnetic fields.