On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune’s auroras, revealing new details about its atmosphere and magnetism.
Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...
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Interesting Engineering on MSNNASA’s Webb telescope captures Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail for first timeNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope used its Near-Infrared Spectrograph to capture Neptune’s auroras in stunning detail.
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
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 ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNCheck Out Neptune’s Beautiful Auroras, Captured for the First Time by the James Webb Space TelescopeScientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...
In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...
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Space on MSNExoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
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