The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its Canadian and European space agency counterparts, has finally ...
Auroras occur when energetic particles, often from the sun, are caught in a planet's magnetic field and collide with the ...
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...
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 ...
The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory. Far from the ...
Webb obtained the data behind the image in June 2023, when its NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) observed both of ...
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system ...