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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.
New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.
Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.
Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...
The James Webb Space Telescope delivers the 1st detailed 3D map of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing dramatic temperature ...
Uranus does not behave like an ordinary planet. Its magnetic field tilts by nearly 60 degrees and sits off-center, so the charged particles that spark auroras do not gather in neat rings.
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Scientists take new approach toward Uranus
The results offer a new window into how ice‑giants distribute energy in their upper layers. The post Scientists take new approach toward Uranus appeared first on Talker.
The observatory’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument observed Uranus for almost a full rotation just over a year ago, showing how the planet’s ionosphere, a thin layer in the planet’s ...
The planet's lopsided magnetic field is twisting the light shows.
If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...
For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the ...
The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...
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