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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.
A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...
Astronomers have just revealed that a day on Uranus is longer than was previously thought, at 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds. This is 28 seconds longer than the previous estimate, which was made ...
New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...
The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...
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Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges ...
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior ...
The James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have captured Neptune’s auroras for the first time, revealing the planet’s magnetic field.
The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...
NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun.