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 ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The first direct evidence for auroras on Neptune has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble ...

Pioneering new research could help unlock exciting new potential to create ultrafast, laser-driven storage devices. The study ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

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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.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever clear images of auroral activity on Neptune, the 8th planet from the Sun. For years, scientists had only speculated about the presence of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

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

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured bright auroral activity on Neptune. Auroras occur when energetic particles, often originating from the Sun, become trapped in a ...

Highly charged heavy ions form a very suitable experimental field for investigating quantum electrodynamics (QED), the ...