02:29 PM Monday 03 July 2023
After capturing a new image of Saturn, the James Webb Space Telescope has finally captured all four of the giant worlds in our solar system.
The researchers made modifications to a photo taken on June 25, 2023 of Saturn, in a way that gives us a wonderful view of the famous rings, shining golden in the dark.
By contrast, Saturn’s disk is completely dark in the new image, appearing relatively dark brown.
A team led by planetary scientist Lee Fletcher of the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom hopes to re-examine Saturn’s rings and moons in more detail, and perhaps discover new moons orbiting it.
The image shows 3 of Saturn’s moons, Dione, Enceladus and Tethys, to the planet’s left, according to the ScienceAlert website.
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Jupiter was the first of the giant planets to obtain a unique image from James Webb, which shows amazing details such as clouds, turbulent storms, permanent auroras that sparkle at Jupiter’s poles, and the planet’s weak rings.
The image shows two of the planet’s smaller and less well-known moons, Amalthea and Adrastea, with fuzzy dots of distant galaxies in the background.
Neptune
The image of Neptune arrived in the latter half of September 2022. Because Neptune is so far away, it suffers from neglect by astronomers, and the first image of it was taken by Voyager 2 when it passed by in 1989.
But James Webb’s image gave us a new look at the ice giant’s gentle rings – and the first ever seen in the infrared.
The image revealed 7 of Neptune’s 14 known moons, and bright spots in its atmosphere. Most of this activity is storm activity, but if you look closely, you’ll see a bright band circling the planet’s equator. Scientists say this has never been seen before and could be a sign of rotation of Neptune’s atmosphere.
Uranus
Uranus is also very far away, but it’s also quite eccentric. Although the planet is very similar to Neptune, the times are different, and Uranus is tilted to the sides, which is also difficult to explain.
James Webb’s image, published in April 2023, doesn’t solve these mysteries, but it does reveal 11 out of 13 structures of the amazing ring system, and the unexplained brightening of the atmosphere above the planet’s polar cap.
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