Astronomers using archived data from the giant Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii have successfully glimpsed Uranus' infrared aurora for the first time. On Earth, the auroral light comes from ...

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Scientists have spotted an infrared aurora on Uranus that could help us find alien life. On Earth, aurorae are best known in the form of the northern lights, when bright light streaks across the sky.

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 ...

A visualization of a recently discovered aurora on Uranus. Illustration: NASA, ESA and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) for the background image of Uranus Feast your eyes on Uranus’ glowing edges. We’re ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy examines a first-time confirmation of infrared (IR) aurora on the planet Uranus, which is one of the most distant planets in our solar system. This ...

(Nanowerk News) 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. The discovery could shed light on ...

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On the first day of the 15th annual European Space Weather Week, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope fittingly shows a striking occurrence of celestial weather in the outer reaches of ...