The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.
The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.
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The James Webb Space Telescope just mapped auroras on Uranus in 3D for the 1st time, and scientists are thrilled
"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...
Webb Observes Uranus Auroras Stranger Than Expected. By Alimat Aliyeva The James Webb Space Telescope recently spent 17 hours observing the mysterious world of Uranus, studying how faint molecular em ...
The planet's lopsided magnetic field is twisting the light shows.
The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...
Uranus' highly tilted axis makes it something of an oddball in our solar system. The accepted wisdom is that Uranus was knocked on its side by a single large impact, but new research rewrites our ...
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