Webb Just Spent 17 Hours Staring at Uranus—and Found Its Auroras Are Even Weirder Than We Thought

The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.
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The James Webb Space Telescope just mapped auroras on Uranus in 3D for the 1st time, and scientists are thrilled

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...
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Uranus’s Aurorae Revealed As JWST Maps Ionosphere For The First Time

The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...

Six-Planet ‘Parade’ Peaks This Weekend — Here’s What You’ll Really See

Six planets are above the horizon this weekend — but only two are obvious to the naked eye. Here’s what you’ll really see ...

OTD in space – February 16: Gerard Kuiper discovers Uranus' moon Miranda

On February 16, 1948, the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus. [‘On This Day in ...

Amazing sky event this month: Six planets will be visible to the naked eye including Neptune and Uranus

Six planets will be parading through the sky at the end of the month, and you won’t have to stay up late into the night to ...
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Uranus and Neptune Reveal Their True Colors

Neptune is not as blue as you’ve been led to believe, and Uranus’s shifting colors are better explained, in new research. By Becky Ferreira Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost ...