Despite “successful detections” on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, astronomers had yet to confirm or obtain images of Neptune’s aurora until nearly two years ago, when Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph ...

Scientists attribute their vibrant colors to excited gases emitted in Earth's atmosphere; oxygen gives off the green color of the aurora. What Causes The Northern Lights? Explained. Short answer? The ...

"Imaging and confirming the auroras on Neptune has long evaded astronomers despite successful detections on Jupiter ... may well explain how the planet's aurora managed to stay hidden for so ...

It's more than just a color. The Pantone Color Institute announced its pick for the 2022 Color of the Year. For the first time in the institute's 22-year history of selecting a hue to represent ...

an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.