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New images released from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are revealing Neptune, and the planet's hard-to-detect rings, in a fresh light.
Now, though, James Webb has captured a stunning image of Neptune. In fact, the image is so stunning that the European Space Agency claims that it’s the clearest view of the planet we’ve had ...
At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do so. Though Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to fly by Neptune, detect ...
For the first time ever, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—humanity’s most powerful eye in space—has captured auroras on Neptune in dazzling detail. Auroras are an atmospheric phenomenon ...
At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
Astro Bob: NASA's Webb Telescope captures never-before-seen auroras on Neptune Auroras light up the skies of the most distant planet 2.8 billion miles away.
This image from the James Webb Space Telescope, top, shows the edge of a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula, one of the largest stellar nurseries. On the bottom, similar imagery captured by ...
Equipped with new findings, astronomers now hope to study Neptune with the James Webb Space Telescope over a full solar cycle, an 11-year period of activity driven by the Sun's magnetic field.