Tag Archive for 'NIRSPEC'

An artist’s impression of a debris disk around the Sun-like star HD 181327. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Ralf Crawford, STScI.

Webb Detects Crystalline Water Ice in Debris Disk around Young, Sun-Like Star

May 14, 2025 by News Staff

Water ice heavily influences the formation of giant planets and may also be delivered by comets to fully formed rocky planets. Using data from the Near-Infrared...

Protopapa et al. detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide spectral signatures on Charon using Webb telescope observations (white), which extend the wavelength coverage of previous New Horizons flyby measurements (pink). Image credit: S. Protopapa / SwRI / NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / JHUAPL.

Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Charon’s Surface

Oct 1, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected carbon dioxide...

An artistic representation of how Uranus’ northern infrared aurora (marked in red) would have looked like in 2006. Image credit: NASA / ESA / M. Showalter, SETI Institute / Hubble Space Telescope.

Infrared Aurora Detected on Uranus

Oct 27, 2023 by News Staff

While the ultraviolet aurora of Uranus has been observed since 1986, no confirmation of the infrared aurora had been observed until now. An artistic representation...

An artist’s rendering of two brown dwarfs. Image credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa & Sergio Dieterich, Carnegie Institution for Science.

Astronomers Discover Exceptionally Short Period Ultracool Dwarf Binary System

Mar 3, 2023 by News Staff

The members of the LP 413-53AB system are so close that it takes just 17 hours to revolve around each other. An artist’s rendering of two brown dwarfs....

An artist’s impression of a mini-Neptune exoplanet and its parent star. Image credit: Adam Makarenko, Keck Observatory.

Two Mini-Neptunes Lose Their Puffy Atmospheres, Transform into Super-Earth Exoplanets

Feb 4, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers have identified two mini-Neptune exoplanets — TOI-560b and HD 63433c — that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming...