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Voyager’s grand tour: The discoveries that transformed our understanding of the solar system

The Voyager spacecraft accomplished one of the most extraordinary exploration missions in history. During their journeys past ...
ExtremeTech

Webb Telescope Images Neptune's Dreamy Auroras

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do so. Though Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to fly by Neptune, detect its ...
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Uranus and Neptune may be 'rock giants,' not 'ice giants,' new model of their cores suggests

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Neptune (left) and Uranus ...
Gizmodo

Keeping Voyager Alive: NASA’s Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as the Iconic Mission Nears Its End

In 1977, two probes launched less than a month apart on a mission to the great beyond. The twin Voyager spacecraft were to travel where no other mission had gone before, exploring what lies outside ...
Gizmodo

This Is the First-Ever Image of Neptune’s Auroral Glow

The Webb Space Telescope has given us our first glimpse of Neptune glowing with bright auroras, a visually stunning phenomenon that has long evaded scientists studying the ice giant. Using Webb’s near ...
New Atlas

NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service

When Voyager 1 and 2 lifted off from what was then Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in 1977, they were only meant to last for about five years – giving them a comfortable time frame to visit Jupiter, ...
IFLScience

Voyager: An Inside Look At NASA’s Longest-Running Mission With Someone There From The Start

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Check Out Neptune’s Beautiful Auroras, Captured for the First Time by the James Webb Space Telescope

At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. At the right, that image is combined with data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to show auroras, represented ...
Mashable

Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time

But Webb's observations didn't just provide new pretty pictures of the ice giant planet's greenish-blue splotches. It revealed how odd Neptune's auroras are compared to other planets', glowing over ...