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Check Out Neptune's Beautiful Auroras, Captured for the First Time by the James Webb Space Telescope
Earth’s beautiful northern and southern lights are the result of auroras: when high-energy charged particles from the sun hit ...
NASA's Webb Telescope Reveals First Look at Neptune's Aurora — Leading to a New Mystery
Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles ...
Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
Neptune’s auroras are captured in great detail by NASA’s Webb telescope
NAS's James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s glowing auroras in the best detail yet. Hints of auroras were first ...
James Webb telescope zooms in on bizarre 'Einstein ring' caused by bending of the universe
The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...
NASA Captures Long Sought-After Images Of Auroras On Neptune For The First Time Ever
After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...
James Webb Telescope discovers mysterious free-floating planet drifting through space
Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...
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Neptune's auroras captured for first time—Here's why they are elusive
Astronomers have successfully captured Neptune's auroras for the first time, utilizing the combined capabilities of the James ...
Physics World15h
James Webb Space Telescope spots spectacular auroras on Neptune
The first direct evidence for auroras on Neptune has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Space Telescope. Auroras happen when energetic particles from the Sun become ...
This Is the First-Ever Image of Neptune’s Auroral Glow
Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...
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Webb Telescope solves the mystery of the 'Cosmic Tornado'
Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 ...
NASA's First-Ever Image Of Neptune's Glowing Auroras Is A Stunner
(if going by patent filings) of the telescope to finally see Neptune's auroras, and it's thanks to NASA's James Webb Space ...