Herts Astronomers Make Remarkable New Discovery Using James Webb Telescope
January 13, 2024
January 13, 2024
HATFIELD, England, Jan. 13 -- The University of Hertfordshire issued the following news:
As part of an international team using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, University of Hertfordshire astronomers have helped to discover a brown dwarf (a celestial object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) exhibiting an unusual infrared emission from methane resembling an aurora.
While methane in emission is a feature observed in gas giants like Jupiter and Sat . . .
As part of an international team using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, University of Hertfordshire astronomers have helped to discover a brown dwarf (a celestial object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) exhibiting an unusual infrared emission from methane resembling an aurora.
While methane in emission is a feature observed in gas giants like Jupiter and Sat . . .