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James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus
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New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.
New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA / Webb) ...
Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.
The solar system's oddball planet has some pretty odd moons, too. The first infrared spectra of Uranus's small inner moons, which will be presented on 18 December at the 2025 AGU Annual Meeting in New ...
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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.
They're solid bodies with visible surface features that can be easily seen at telescopic distances, so careful observation and a bit of calculation readily gives an accurate answer. If you can't see ...
James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of Uranus's auroras, revealing details of its unusual magnetic environment. These infrared emissions, invisible to the human eye, offer a rare ...
They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns Hopkins ...
New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.
An unsuspecting moon lurking in our solar system has a secret ocean of water that might even harbor extraterrestrial life, scientists have suggested. The tiny world Miranda, one of the moons of the ...
Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer than anything. A study by the lead researchers astrophysicists Luca Morf ...
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