Webb Telescope Captures Neptune’s Long-Hidden Auroras in Stunning Detail
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
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NASA Powers Down Equipment on Voyager Probes as They Struggle for Life
There's more bad news for NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles from ...
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Webb Telescope Images Neptune's Dreamy Auroras
Webb obtained the data behind the image in June 2023, when its NIRSpec (Near InfraRed Spectrograph) observed both of ...
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NASA's Webb Captures Neptune's Auroras For First Time
Read At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined ...
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"Every Day Could Be Our Last": NASA Shuts Down Instruments On Aging Voyager Spacecraft
helped NASA's Voyager team to determine when Voyager 1 left the Solar System's heliosphere. The low-energy charged particle instrument, scheduled to be shut down on Voyager 2, takes various ...
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NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service
They were also the first two probes to leave our solar system and the first to explore interstellar space. Voyager Trajectory Not to mention that they are the oldest active spacecraft (not ...
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NASA’s Webb telescope captures Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail for first time
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.
Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
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Check Out Neptune’s Beautiful Auroras, Captured for the First Time by the James Webb Space Telescope
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
Webb captures Neptune's auroras for first time
Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets of our solar system.