NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope is capturing the most detailed images of our universe in history. After taking a deep look into our cosmos, NASA is now using the telescope to get a closer look at Jupiter and its surrounding moons.
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As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter is also considered the third brightest object in the night sky, following the Moon and Venus. NASA used two filters on Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) to capture this new photograph of the Gas Giant. The NIRCam is an imager that detects light to study how and when stars, planets, and galaxies were formed.
“In this wide-field view, Webb sees Jupiter with its faint rings, which are a million times fainter than the planet, and two tiny moons called Amalthea and Adrastea,” NASA observed. “The fuzzy spots in the lower background are likely galaxies “photobombing” this Jovian view.”
Earlier this month, NASA also shared an image of the Cartwheel Galaxy. The galaxy is located in the Sculptor constellation approximately 500 million light-years from Earth.
The images provide scientists with a closer look into the galaxy’s central black hole. The galaxy also shows many individual stars or pockets of star formation in the form of individual blue dots.
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