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  • Astronomers Spot New Aurora in the Gases Around Uranus

    Astronomers Spot New Aurora in the Gases Around Uranus

    Feast your eyes on Uranus’ glowing edges. We’re serious—a team of astronomers has spotted a new aurora on the seventh planet from the Sun, glowing at infrared wavelengths. Ultraviolet aurorae were first spotted on the planet in 1986, but an infrared aurora had never been seen before. The aurora’s discovery was made with the Keck…


  • Parker Solar Probe Sails Directly Through Sun’s Intense Plasma Burst

    Parker Solar Probe Sails Directly Through Sun’s Intense Plasma Burst

    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew through an ejection of coronal material as it passed by the Sun in September 2022, giving researchers new data to understand how the Sun’s superheated plasma interacts with the surrounding interplanetary dust. The coronal mass ejection (CME) flown through by the probe is one of the most powerful ever recorded, according…