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NASA's Webb Telescope Reveals First Look at Neptune's Aurora

Neptune’s Long-Hidden Auroras Are Captured for the First Time–While Revealing a New Mystery

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system.

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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

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Check Out Neptune’s Beautiful Auroras, Captured for the First Time by the James Webb Space Telescope

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

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Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

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James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

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Sky Shorts: Hubble marks 35 years of space exploration

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

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Extremely Large Telescope could sense hints of life at Proxima Centauri in just 10 hours, simulations suggest

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

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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 ...

Webb Telescope Captures Neptune’s Long-Hidden Auroras in Stunning Detail

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 ...

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