They have been seen on Jupiter (above left) with the Hubble Space Telescope, and on Saturn (above right) and even Ganymede. Similar kinds of 'electrodynamic' and fluorescent activity has also been detected in the vicinity of Jupiter's moon Io. Uranus and Neptune are the only other planets than have magnetic fields, and auroral activity was not seen there by the Voyager spacecraft.

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