JWST finally detects radiation from Pluto that conclusively determines that Pluto's haze indeed impacts its climate.

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto's surface shrouded in atmospheric haze. (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals new details about Pluto's climate. Data confirms that Pluto's haze regulates its ...

The discovery of the haze-temperature connection on Pluto demonstrates, for the first time, that there are actual cases out there where this type of effect can serve to reduce the worldwide ...

JWST confirms Pluto’s haze cools its mesosphere and drives methane escape, coating Charon’s poles red. The haze absorbs UV light, heats the upper atmosphere, and re-radiates heat as infrared.

Figure 4: Infrared spectra of Pluto with flux values at Earth’s distance, with and without the effects of haze radiation from Pluto’s atmosphere.

But now that scientists have taken a closer look at the data gathered from that trip, and they've come to a realization: Pluto and its moons are still extremely fuzzy. It's all due to haze ...

Analysis shows distinct layers of haze in Pluto’s nitrogen ... Based on the lack of impact craters, scientists suspect the surface of Pluto is less than a few hundred million years old, a ...