New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.
If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...
Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.
The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.
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How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment
Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...
General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...
Somewhere deep below Saturn s cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant speed. Determining this interior period of rotation has proven extremely complicated. Now, with new Cassini results, a team ...
Every second, the Earth spins at an incredible speed, completing a full rotation in just 24 hours. While this may seem ordinary, the simple act of our planet turning on its axis is responsible for the ...
A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...
We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise direction. However, the universe never ceases to amaze us with its unexpected ...
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