Uranus does not behave like an ordinary planet. Its magnetic field tilts by nearly 60 degrees and sits off-center, so the charged particles that spark auroras do not gather in neat rings.
New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.
Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.
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Webb Just Spent 17 Hours Staring at Uranus—and Found Its Auroras Are Even Weirder Than We Thought
The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.
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 ...
The data reveals bright auroras shaped by the planet’s tilted magnetic field and confirm that Uranus is still gradually ...
If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...
A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.
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 ...
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, ...
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First-ever 3D map of Uranus’ upper atmosphere shows how magnetic field shapes auroras
A research team has successfully created the first-ever three-dimensional map of Uranus’s upper atmosphere.
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