Aurora on Neptune shine along the right side of the planet in Webb's IR images (right). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin (Northumbria University), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Stefanie Milam (NASA-GSFC) Earth isn’t the only world that has aurora. In the past, all the worlds with strong magnetic fields have put on some sort of an auroral display. From Mercury x-ray aurorae that were spotted most recently by BepiColombo, to Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus’s polar light shows that appear in many different colors, including IR and UV, world after world...

Aurora Alert: Neptune & Jupiter
read more