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Presence Of Methane Suggests Brown Dwarf Atmospheric Heating By Auroral Processes

by Keith CowingJanuary 10, 2024January 10, 2024

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) that may display possible aurorae, like the […]

An artistic representation of how the northern infrared aurora would have looked like in 2006 (marked in red). The darker red locations indicate confirmed aurora locations, with fainter red used to mark possible aurora locations. Credit to NASA, ESA and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) for the background image of Uranus, as was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (in the visible spectrum) in August 2005. Credit to NASA, ESA and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) for the background image of Uranus, as was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (in the visible spectrum) in August 2005.

Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Press Release, Uranus

Uranus Aurora Discovery Offers Clues To Habitable Icy Worlds

by Keith CowingOctober 27, 2023October 27, 2023

The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time by University of Leicester astronomers.

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Presence Of Methane Suggests Brown Dwarf Atmospheric Heating By Auroral Processes

Uranus Aurora Discovery Offers Clues To Habitable Icy Worlds

Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers A Field Of Honeycomb Textures

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Constraining The Lives And Times Of Exoplanets Through Evolutionary Bayesian Retrievals

Project Hephaistos — III. Characterizing Anomalous Infrared Sources Identified As Dyson-sphere Candidates

SCoRE: The Surface Composition Of Rocky Exoplanets