{"id":3924014,"date":"2026-02-19T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-maps-the-mysterious-upper-atmosphere-of-uranus\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:03:07","slug":"webb-maps-the-mysterious-upper-atmosphere-of-uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-maps-the-mysterious-upper-atmosphere-of-uranus\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb maps the mysterious upper atmosphere of Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus&#8217;s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Using Webb&#8217;s NIRSpec instrument, the team observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, detecting the faint glow from molecules high above the clouds.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-webb-mysterious-upper-atmosphere-uranus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus&#8217;s upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Using Webb&#8217;s NIRSpec instrument, the team observed Uranus for nearly a full rotation, detecting the faint glow from molecules high above the clouds. <\/p>\n<p>Go to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}