This NASA image shows a false-color composite image of Jupiter acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 27, 2022.
Cape Canaveral, Florida: The world’s newest and largest space telescope shows Jupiter, the Northern Lights and more like never before.
Scientists released a picture of the largest planet in our solar system on Monday.
The James Webb Space Telescope snapped a picture in July that captured an unprecedented view of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights and swirling polar haze. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to engulf the Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
One wide-field image is particularly dramatic, showing a faint ring around the planet and two small moons against a background of twinkling galaxies.
Imke De Pater, a planetary astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who led the observations, said:
“I honestly didn’t expect it to be this good,” she added in a statement.
The infrared image has been artificially colored blue, white, green, yellow, and orange to highlight its features, according to the US-French team.
NASA and the European Space Agency’s $10 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope launched late last year and has been observing space in the infrared since the summer. Scientists want to join Webb in witnessing the dawn of the universe, going back 13.7 billion years to his time when the first stars and galaxies formed.
Observatories are located one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
