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

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune. Capturing the auroral activity on the ice giant has been long in coming ...

On Neptune, the dumping point for solar particles is near the planet's equator, rather than the poles. JWST measurements of the temperature of the distant ice giant also revealed why we've had such a ...

This significant achievement sheds light on the elusive auroras of the ice giant, which have long ... appeared as cyan splotches across Neptune's surface. Interestingly, Neptune's auroras differ ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras. Scientists have long suspected that the distant ice giant hosts shimmering light displays, based on ...

a totally new window in ice giant atmospheric science. From the Webb observations, the team also measured the temperature of the top of Neptune's atmosphere for the first time since Voyager 2's flyby.

Despite its extremely cold atmosphere, the interior of Neptune is far hotter than that of its ice giant twin, Uranus. In fact, Neptune gives out 2.6 times more heat than it receives from the Sun. The ...

The detection of Neptune's auroras will help astronomers better understand how particles from the sun interact with its atmosphere, providing a new area of study about ice giant planets.

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 ...