"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

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 ...

The perception of Neptune as much darker and bluer than Uranus was "cemented" when pictures were sent back by the Voyager 2 probe after it flew by the two planets in 1986 and 1989, said The Times.

This composite image provided by NASA on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, shows three side-by-side images of Neptune. From left, a photo of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 in 1989, Hubble in 2021, and Webb in ...

The photo at left is an enhanced-color image of Neptune from the Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...

Hammel and her colleagues used JWST’s NIRSpec, a powerful infrared imaging tool, to capture spectroscopic images of Neptune and analyse the different wavelengths of light emitted by the planet.

"As a long-time Neptunophile, anticipation of these images was one of the key reasons I became a JWST Interdisciplinary Scientist," said Heidi Hammel, a Neptune expert, in a post on X. "Kudos to ...

"The level of detail and clarity of the images was surprising." Neptune's magnetic field is tilted about 47 degrees relative to the planet's rotation axis, which explains why the auroras are ...

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 ...

In Webb's images of Neptune, the aurora appears as lighter blue or cyan areas set against the blue planet. The auroral glow occurs because of the same basic interaction of solar particles ...

astronomers have captured direct images of Neptune's elusive auroras. "Turns out, actually imaging the auroral activity on Neptune was only possible with Webb's near-infrared sensitivity," said ...