It's even colder if looking at Neptune's whole surface, with temps averaging -200C ... "Turns out, actually imaging the auroral activity on Neptune was only possible with Webb’s near-infrared ...

Far from the Sun, and Earth, the sky-blue planet Neptune has been captured ... and minerals on the surface. For a long time, it was unclear what auroral activity, if any, might be present on ...

“Turns out, actually imaging the auroral activity on Neptune was only possible with Webb’s near-infrared sensitivity,” said lead researcher Henrik Melin of Northumbria University.

But solar activity increases, climaxing in the middle of the cycle and causing the sun to roil with giant eruptions. NASA's Voyager 2 mission, the only spacecraft to visit Neptune, was unable to ...

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." For the first time, astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive ...

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 ...

Washington — 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 light during a ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. Thirty-six years after the first hints of auroral ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected infrared auroras on Neptune for the first time. The auroras are shown in cyan in this enhanced-color image. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi ...