Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an observation of Neptune's lights remained elusive for decades

Neptune's elusive auroras have been finally revealed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers scouring through the combined data from Webb and the Hubble telescope have discovered the presence of trihydrogen cation (H3+), which is created in auroras .

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