‘If you were to overlay where Neptune’s Aurora occurs on the Earth, the southern aurora would fall just over Argentina and the northern Aurora would fall north of Japan,’ he added.

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier telescopes or spacecraft. By Robin George Andrews The vermilion ...

Despite “successful detections” on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, astronomers had yet to confirm or obtain images of Neptune’s aurora until nearly two years ago, when Webb’s Near-Infrared ...

"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets of our solar system." Aurora (cyan splotches) on Neptune. Aurora (cyan splotches) on Neptune.

"Neptune's aurora shines over latitudes comparable to South America on Earth," Hammel said. "This is because Neptune's magnetic field is seriously tilted from the planet's rotation axis (by 47 ...

Neptune harbors cosmic secrets, in part because of its distance from Earth. But researchers have just unlocked one of the planet's mysteries by using the unique capabilities of the James Webb ...

The planet is colder now than back in 1989 when Voyager 2 visited it. “Finding aurora on Neptune is probably the funnest result I have ever had,” lead author Henrik Melin of Northumbria ...

Neptune’s spectacular aurora has been captured by NASA (Picture: EPA) The auroras would be visible north of Japan if they were on Earth like Neptune (Picture: Metro/Google Maps) ‘If you were t ...

an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA’s James Webb space telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun. According to an article published by NASA on ...