Jupiter Photographed With Its Rings and Aurora

James Webb Space TelescopeAfter a delay of more than 10 years, it was finally sent to the region where it will end its life last December. The telescope shared the first color deep space photos it obtained in the past weeks. While the observations with James Webb continue, the new images shared today are the largest planet in the Solar System. to Jupiter it belonged.

Images obtained by the European Space Agency using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show Jupiter invisible ring and at the poles of the planet aurora lights revealed. The magnificent images that emerged were as follows:

Jupiter as seen by James Webb:

The images you see above are the ones in the Telescope that contain three special infrared filters. NIRCam equipment taken with. Since infrared light is not visible to the naked eye, the images obtained by the telescope were then processed into the visible color spectrum.

In the image of Jupiter alone, created from the combination of several images taken from Webb, the auroral lights are above both the north and south poles of Jupiter. extends to high altitudes. The auroral lights shine in a filter matched with redder colors that also accentuate the light reflected from the lower clouds and upper haze. A different filter, paired with yellows and greens, shows hazes swirling at the north and south poles. A third filter paired with blues shows light reflecting off a deeper main cloud.

Jupiter’s notorious Great Red Spot, a storm large enough to swallow Earth, appears as white in these images as the other clouds. Because these dots and clouds, they reflect too much sunlight into the telescope.

James Webb recently re-imaged Jupiter: