For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune.
Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...
Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, captured the first direct images of Neptune's auroras, revealing light ...
Does it rain diamonds on Neptune and Uranus? Scientists uncover how extreme pressure and temperature deep inside these ice giants create a continuous diamond rain.
"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...
The detection of these auroras provides new insights into how Neptune's magnetic field interacts with solar particles and ...
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 used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.
Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...