Scientists released the shots Monday of the solar system’s biggest planet.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the images in July. It was able to capture unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and south lights and swirling Polar haze. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
A wide-field photo is especially dramatic and shows the faint rings surrounding the planet as well as the two small moons, against the backdrop of many galaxies.
” This is the most spectacular view of Jupiter. “It’s quite amazing,” commented Imke de Pater (University of California Berkeley), who led the observations.
“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest,” she added in a statement.
The infrared images were artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to the U.S.-French research team, to make the features stand out.
NASA and the European Space Agency’s $10 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope rocketed away at the end of last year and has been observing the cosmos in the infrared since summer. Webb will allow scientists to see the beginning of the universe, allowing them to look back at the time when first stars and galaxies formed 13.. 7 billion years ago.
The observatory is positioned 1 million miles (1. 6 million kilometers) from Earth.
(AP)
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