Giant news from a giant planet! New space telescope shows Jupiter's auroras, tiny moons
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Like never before
The world's newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all. Scientists released the shots on Monday of the solar system's biggest planet. The James Webb Space Telescope took the photos in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter's northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze.
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Great Red Spot
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms. One wide-field picture is particularly dramatic, showing the faint rings around the planet, as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies.
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'Quite incredible'
“We've never seen Jupiter like this. It's all quite incredible,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations. “We hadn't really expected it to be this good, to be honest," she added in a statement.
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Artificially colored
The infrared images were artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to the US-French research team, to make the features stand out.
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Dawn of the universe
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope rocketed away at the end of 2021. It has been observing the cosmos in the infrared since then. Scientists, with the help of Webb Telescope, hope to understand the dawn of the universe all the way back to when the stars and galaxies started forming billion years ago.