The James Webb Telescope captures stunning new images of Neptune's rings
The James Webb Telescope captures stunning new images of Neptune's rings
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of Neptune's rings.
"This is the first time we've seen faint and dusty Neptune's rings through infrared. It's been three decades since we last saw these rings," Heidi Hamill, a Neptune expert and interdisciplinary scientist with the Webb Project, said in a news release.
New James Webb Telescope images of Neptune show features not seen before since NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft obtained the first photographic evidence of Neptune's rings during its flyby in 1989. Because methane, part of the planet's chemical makeup, does not appear blue the Near Infrared Web Camera (NIRCam) also shows in the images methane ice clouds.
Neptune, the dark and cold planet driven by supersonic winds, is the farthest planet in our solar system. The planet and its neighbor Uranus are known as "ice giants" because their inner parts are made up of the elements hydrogen and helium.
The James Webb Telescope captures stunning new images of Neptune's rings
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