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

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

But auroras around our sun’s most distant planet, Neptune, have long eluded astronomers. That has changed with the powerful infrared instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope.

For the first time, researchers have spotted infrared auroras swirling in Neptune’s atmosphere ... Now, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has finally provided the power to detect them.

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Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the sun. For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured ...