Neptune’s auroras captured in great detail by Nasa’s Webb telescope

Neptune’s auroras captured in great detail by Nasa’s Webb telescope
An enhanced-colour image of Neptune from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and right, that image is combined with data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. (ESA/Webb via AP)

Neptune’s glowing auroras have been captured in the best detail yet by Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989.

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