The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

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On Neptune far out in the solar system it’s a different story—but what happens on the ice giant planet nevertheless appears to be inextricably linked to the same solar cycle. Having looked at ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an observation of Neptune’s lights remained elusive for decades Margherita ...

The correct shades of the planets have now been ... Dec. 19, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its ...

"Kudos to the team for realizing my dream!" 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 ...

Voyager 2 also revealed that the ice giant has auroras—magnetically induced displays that light up the skies when charged particles interact with the planet’s atmosphere. Scientists collected ...

Cold, dark and windswept - despite its calm appearance, the ice giant Uranus is a planet of extremes. Orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometres - more than 19 times further out ...

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.