That’s just what researchers from Northumbria University in the United Kingdom recently did, mapping the atmosphere of Uranus for the first time. They published their findings in Geophysical Research ...
New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.
Uranus does not behave like an ordinary planet. Its magnetic field tilts by nearly 60 degrees and sits off-center, so the ...
Webb has delivered the first detailed 3D view of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, uncovering glowing auroras, heat peaks thousands of kilometers high, and the powerful influence of its tilted magnetic field ...
If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.
The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.
What does the atmosphere of Uranus look like? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters hopes to ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope provided the first vertical view of Uranus's ionosphere in this image released on Feb. 19, ...
A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.
The James Webb Space Telescope recently spent 17 hours observing the mysterious world of Uranus, studying how faint molecular ...
The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...
For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, ...