"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space Agency.

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s mysterious auroral activity. Faint hints of Neptune’s auroras were first ...

Despite “successful detections” on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, astronomers had yet to confirm or obtain images of Neptune’s aurora until nearly two years ago, when Webb’s Near-Infrared ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of ... NASA notes that Neptune's auroras are unlike Earth's, Jupiter's, and Saturn's in that they aren't confined to the northern ...

But Webb's observations didn't just provide new pretty pictures of the ice giant planet's greenish-blue splotches. It revealed how odd Neptune's auroras are compared to other planets', glowing ...

The photo at left is an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...

At the right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space ... Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus — of auroral activity, and we expected to see the same on Neptune as we ...

Saturn and Uranus. Capturing images of Neptune's auroras had remained out of reach until the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) turned its powerful eye towards the icy planet. "Turns out ...

In the Webb images of Neptune, the glowing aurora appears as splotches represented in cyan. “H3+ has a been a clear signifier on all the gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus — of auroral activity, ...

At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA’s James Webb Space ... nature of Neptune's aurora, which scientists say differs from those seen on Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, where ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...