Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...

Average Surface Temperatures of All Planets: There are eight planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, with Pluto now categorised as a dwarf ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, captured the first direct images of Neptune's auroras, revealing light shows previously believed to exist but unseen. These auroras appear at ...

Webb’s data also provided the first measurement of Neptune’s upper atmospheric temperature since the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby. The findings revealed an unexpected cooling—several hundred degrees ...

Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

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Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s mysterious auroral activity. Faint hints of Neptune’s auroras were first ...

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. The results hint at why Neptune's auroras remained ...

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

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

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

Webb captured the images in June 2023 using its Near-Infrared Spectrograph. Astronomers also collected spectral data to analyze Neptune’s atmospheric temperature and chemical makeup. For the first ...