Stunning images of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Telescope

Now, the Webb Telescope has captured images that show its giant storms, auroras and faint rings in even greater detail.

“We have never seen Jupiter like this. It’s so unbelievable.” said Planetary astronomer Imke de Pater is professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. “To be honest, we didn’t really expect it to be this good,” he said Report.

As part of an international collaboration, De Pater observed Jupiter with Professor Thierry Fawcett of the Paris Observatory. The images, taken in July, were released by NASA on Monday was invited They are “Great news from a great planet.”

NASA has released the first images of the James Webb Space Telescope

“It is remarkable that details of Jupiter can be seen in a single image, including its rings, small satellites and even galaxies,” de Pater said in the statement.

10 billion dollar telescope is named after James E. WebbHe directed the US space agency from 1961 to 1968. The telescope will be launched in 2021 as part of an international collaboration led by NASA with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

In July, NASA Released the first set of full color images And data from the revolutionary telescope reveal the luminous cosmic spectacle of colliding galaxies and dying stars.

Two photos of Jupiter were released this week, among several Web image collections, taken by the telescope’s near-infrared camera, which has infrared filters that show details of the planet. Because infrared light is invisible to the human eye, the images were artificially colored to translate them into the visible spectrum and make Jupiter’s features stand out, NASA said. The images were processed by a citizen scientist Judy Schmidt.

Unlike Earth, Jupiter does not have a solid surface, but is instead a gas giant made of hydrogen and helium. It is thought to have the same basic material as a star, but has not grown large enough to ignite. It has many rings, but unlike Saturn, they are fainter and made of space dust rather than ice.

In a wider field, the new images show Jupiter with its faint rings and two smaller moons called Amalthea and Atrastia.

“This one image summarizes the science of our Jupiter System Project, which studies the dynamics and chemistry of Jupiter, its rings and its satellite system,” said astronomer Fauchet.

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Jupiter, with a day of about 10 hours, has at least 50 moons. The Four big onesIo, Europa, Kanymede and Callisto were first observed in 1610 by the Italian physicist Galileo Galilei.

The images also capture Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot, which appears white in photos because it reflects sunlight, NASA said. The Great Red Spot is a storm larger than Earth and has been raging for centuries.

In a seemingly renewed age of space exploration, NASA earlier this month said It has identified 13 candidate landing sites on Earth’s moon as it prepares to send astronauts back there under its Artemis program.

It was the first mission to return a crew to the lunar surface since Apollo in 1969. Adds First woman and person of color to set foot on the moon.

Meanwhile, an audio clip shared by NASA this weekend of what it calls the remixed sounds of a black hole has sparked awe. The audio has been edited and amplified for human hearing, but NASA said the sound emanating from a galaxy cluster 240 million light-years away defies the misconception that there is no sound in space.