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Home » Astronomy and space » James Webb Space Telescope spots spectacular auroras on Neptune

James Webb Space Telescope spots spectacular auroras on Neptune

27 Mar 2025 Michael Banks
Neptune auroras
Glowing: the image is a superposition of data taken by James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) as well as the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. (courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria University), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Stefanie Milam (NASA-GSFC))
The first direct evidence for auroras on Neptune has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope

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