Far from the Sun, and Earth, the sky-blue planet Neptune has been captured shimmering in near-infrared light as particles interact in its hazy atmosphere. It's the first time an aurora has been ...

New photos of Neptune’s glowing auroras are the most ... creating a series of reactions that emit light. On Earth, auroras tend to occur near the polar regions, producing spectacular northern ...

Videos and images captured by the spacecraft ... image taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft from beyond Neptune, which shows Earth as a “pale blue dot.” An image of the moon captured ...

The pictures taken in July show not only Neptune's thin rings ... operating 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth. It rocketed into space last December. The observatory is in ...

In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our solar system where sunlight is merely a tepid glow, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft radioed to Earth humankind's very first images of Neptune.

a bit like cirrus clouds on Earth.” The Webb telescope’s future observations could uncover how they form and what they are made of. Webb images also show seven of Neptune’s 14 moons.

Neptune is so far from the sun that noon on the planet is like a dim twilight on Earth, NASA said in the press release. First launched in December, the Webb telescope has been releasing pictures ...

With Webb’s latest images, scientists finally have ... mid-latitudes (around where South America is on Earth). This is caused by Neptune’s unique magnetic field, which is tilted by 47 degrees ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI From its perch one million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has peered deep into our solar system to capture images of Neptune. These new views show seven of ...

In addition, the early Neptune images from Voyager 2 were strongly contrast ... south pole points almost directly towards the Sun and Earth. This is important, the authors said, because any ...

The pictures taken in July show not only ... Located 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth, Neptune orbits in one of the dimmest areas of our Solar System. At that extreme distance, the Sun ...