Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...
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Check Out Neptune’s Beautiful Auroras, Captured for the First Time by the James Webb Space TelescopeScientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
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James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worldsHycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...
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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating ExoplanetsScientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras for the first time ...
Neptune's elusive auroras have been finally revealed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers scouring through ...
The cyan splotches, which represent auroral activity, and white clouds, are data from Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), overlaid on top of the full image of the planet from Hubble’s ...
James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.
Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets of our solar system.
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