The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...
James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.
"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.
Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system ...
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
WASHINGTON — Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of ...
NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet ...
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...