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

Far from the Sun, and Earth, the sky-blue planet Neptune has been captured shimmering in near-infrared light as particles interact in its hazy atmosphere. It's the first time an aurora has been imaged ...

Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

NASA unveiled the first visuals of auroras on Neptune, captured by the James Webb Telescope. These auroras provide crucial insights into the planet's interaction with solar particles. The images ...

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 Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do so. Though Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to fly by Neptune ...

"As a long-time Neptunophile, anticipation of these images was one of the key reasons I became a JWST Interdisciplinary Scientist," said Heidi Hammel, a Neptune expert, in a post on X. "Kudos to ...

In Webb’s images, these glowing auroras appear as vibrant cyan splotches, offering a striking new view of Neptune’s dynamic atmosphere. “H 3 + has a been a clear signifier on all the gas ...

Lights glow in the skies of Uranus, too. But auroras around our sun’s most distant planet, Neptune, have long eluded astronomers. That has changed with the powerful infrared instruments aboard ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto When Neptune made the rounds in Aquarius — the sign of space cowboys and progress through radical experimentation — the world was rewarded, or doomed, by the explosion ...

astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras. "Turns out, actually imaging the auroral activity on Neptune was only possible with Webb's near-infrared sensitivity," said ...