Astronomers have successfully captured Neptune's auroras for the first time, utilizing the combined capabilities of the James ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...
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.
Auroras occur when solar flares interact with the magnetic field of a planet. They have been detected on Jupiter, Saturn, and ...
A cosmic enigma, ASKAP J1839-0756, a slow-spinning neutron star discovered using the ASKAP radio telescope, is challenging ...
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
After 34 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James Webb Space ...
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...
Auroras are natural light displays that occur when energetic particles from the Sun are trapped by a planet’s magnetic field.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do ...