The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in ...
"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...
Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.
NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet ...
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...
Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb ...
The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the ... weaving through the skies of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and even on some of Jupiter’s fiery and icy moons. Lights glow in the skies ...
The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...