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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 ...
Astronomy on MSN5h
The Sky This Week from March 28 to April 4: Greet the First Quarter Moon
Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...
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 ...
Atmospheres of new planets might have unexpected mixtures of hydrogen and water
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...