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, even ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

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 ...

Since colder temperatures lead to fainter auroral activity, that likely explains why it’s been so difficult to spot Neptune’s auroras—but it doesn’t explain why the ice giant cooled so ...

NASA's flagship James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever images of auroral activity on Neptune ... composition and temperature of the ice giant's upper atmosphere.

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 ...

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 ...

When NASA’s Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune in 1989, it found tantalising hints of aurora activity in the ice giant’s clouds. However, scientists were unable to verify the phenomenon at the ...

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.

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.