Neptune's moon Nereid was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. This was the second of 14 moons discovered at ...

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb captured Neptune's shimmering lights in infrared light, providing direct ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do so. Though Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to fly by Neptune ...

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune. Capturing the auroral activity on the ice giant has been long in coming, even ...

For the first time ever, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—humanity ... glimpses of auroral activity on Neptune—most notably during NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1989. Yet, unlike its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ... changes in Neptune's atmosphere. "I was astonished — Neptune's upper atmosphere has cooled by several hundreds of degrees [since the Voyager flyby]," Melin ...

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb captured Neptune’s shimmering lights in infrared light, providing ...