The first deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed glowing auroras on Jupiter like never before.

The infrared views, captured in 2023, shed light on the giant planet's atmosphere and magnetosphere—but they also reveal something unexpected ...

A series of close-up images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope depict these light ... from the Sun through the planet's magnetic field. As particles collide with atmospheric atoms and ...

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the Webb and Hubble telescopes, released a video of ...

From the ocean’s rolling swells to the bumpy ride of a jetliner, turbulence is everywhere. Yet despite its ubiquity, ...

Webb telescope uncovers fiery, fast-pulsing auroras on Jupiter, reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s magnetic ...

The telescope captured the space phenomena, which is hundreds of times brighter than the auroras we see on Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope previously captured Jupiter's auroras in 2022, watching them glow at high altitudes at the gas giant's poles. The images also showed faint rings around Jupiter and ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope ... The planet's magnetic field snatches charged particles that are near it, like particles from solar winds, particles that are tossed into space by the gas giant's ...