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Scientists say a vast region of unexpectedly high temperatures in Jupiter's upper atmosphere was caused by a massive wave of solar wind.
Aurora lights on Uranus helped NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope measure the planet’s interior rotation rate, changing what ...
The planet’s elusive aurorae are much colder than expected, which is how they evaded detection for so long.
When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27 ... NASA also released an eerie infrared image of a southern Jovian aurora: The images come from just the first of 36 flybys that ...
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 ...
"Neptune was the missing piece of the puzzle when it came to detecting auroras on the giant planets," said the European Space ...
The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...
The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...
Research published by scientists in England found a 2017 solar event compressed Jupiter's magnetic field, setting off aurora at the poles and heating in the upper atmosphere that spread across the ...