The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

Webb obtained the data behind the image in June 2023, when its NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) observed both of ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

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 ...

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, captured the first direct images of Neptune's auroras, revealing light ...

Earth’s beautiful northern and southern lights are the result of auroras: when high-energy charged particles from the sun hit ...

These observations were made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Spectrograph ... something that hasn't been done since Voyager 2's flyby in August, 1989.

(ESA/Webb via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — Neptune’s glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet ...

More than three decades after Voyager 2's pass, scientists have seen Neptune's auroras again with the powerful Webb telescope, producing “the first robust detection," co-author Heidi Hammel of ...

WASHINGTON — Neptune's glowing auroras have been captured in the minutest detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.