Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

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"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

Auroras occur when solar flares interact with the magnetic field of a planet. They have been detected on Jupiter, Saturn, and ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, captured the first direct images of Neptune's auroras, revealing light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...