Webb’s near-infrared instruments have confirmed the existence of these ghostly lights and opened a new window into the ice giant’s strange magnetic world. Hints of auroral activity on Neptune ...

"Only with a machine like Webb have we finally gotten that confirmation." The auroral activity seen on Neptune is also noticeably ... a totally new window in ice giant atmospheric science.

Neptune, the eighth and final planet from the sun, is known for its trails of wispy white clouds made up of crystals of frozen methane. Strong winds whip these clouds across the ice giant at ...

NASA's flagship James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever images of auroral activity on Neptune ... composition and temperature of the ice giant's upper atmosphere.

If there’s a planet in this cloud, it’d almost definitely be an ice giant. When large planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune form, they’re born as twins. The problem is that these ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze away from the deep universe toward our home Solar System, capturing an image of a luminous Neptune ... to fly past the ice giant for just a ...

Under the ice: Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic ...

By Jonathan O’Callaghan No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989 ... who were eager to learn more about the ice giant. Now we’ve returned. Sort of. On Wednesday, the James Webb Space ...

which would be more visible on Neptune. “We hoped that developing this model would help us understand clouds and hazes in the ice giant atmospheres,” said study coauthor Mike Wong, an ...

Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's known as a ... Fast forward to last year, and with the help of machine learning, Militzer was able to simulate the behavior ...

But Webb's observations didn't just provide new pretty pictures of the ice giant planet's greenish-blue splotches. It revealed how odd Neptune's auroras are compared to other planets', glowing ...