The US space agency (NASA) has published stunning new images of Jupiter provided by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing two small moons, fuzzy rings and glowing poles. "It's really cool to be able to see the details of Jupiter, with its rings, small moons, and even galaxies, all in one image," University of Berkeley astronomer Emke de Pater wrote Monday in a post on the NASA blog.
A glowing light appears at the poles of the largest planet in the solar system that includes the Earth, which is the aurora borealis of Jupiter, which consists of particles from the sun interacting with the magnetic field of the star, as is the case for the planet Earth. These images also show the surface of this gas giant with its winds, storms and fog.
In images from a wider angle, Jupiter appears with its very thin rings and its two moons, Amalthea and Adrastea. NASA obtained these images as a result of the observations carried out by the "Nircam" instrument of the James Webb Telescope, which monitors the near-infrared, which is a field invisible to the naked eye.
The data collected by the tool was converted into illustrations that the human eye can see, and researchers will study this data to get a better idea of the internal mechanisms of Jupiter, according to "AFP". The James Webb Telescope, which cost ten billion dollars, was sent into space about eight months ago, and is currently located about 1.5 million kilometers from the planet.
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