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"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...
Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that NASA's Voyager 2 probe began decades ago.
"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space ...
The photo at left is an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...
In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has performed 'post-mortem' of a cosmic scene after a planet was swallowed by the star it was ...
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