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

Researchers believe Neptune’s unusual auroras are caused by the planet’s oddly tilted magnetic field, first discovered by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1989. Unlike Earth’s, Neptune’s magnetic field ...

This is because Neptune’s magnetic field has an odd orientation, which Voyager 2 revealed is tilted by 47 degrees relative to the planet’s axis of rotation. JWST collected the exciting data in ...

But they occur in unusual mid-latitude regions on Neptune. This is because Neptune's magnetic field is tilted at 47 degrees. This peculiarity was first found by Voyager 2 in 1989. Astronomers have ...

The images also revealed Neptune's unusual mid-latitude auroras and a significantly cooler upper atmosphere, vital for understanding its magnetic field. Using Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes ...

These auroras appear at unusual mid-latitude positions due to Neptune's unique magnetic field. The JWST also discovered significant cooling of Neptune's upper atmosphere, offering insights into ...

On Neptune, they mainly occur in mid-latitudes –, roughly where South America is located on Earth, writes the ESA. The reason for this is the planet's strange magnetic field. It is inclined by ...