Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Joel Kontinen
Rings, moons, storms and a bright polar cap can be seen in this
breathtaking new image of Uranus from the James Webb Space Telescope
This amazing shot of Uranus, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope
(JWST), has given us our most complete view yet of the planet, with its rings
and turbulent atmosphere revealed in glorious detail.
In April, JWST used its infrared sensors to image Uranus and give
us a clearer view of the ice giant’s rings of rock and dust, which had only
previously been directly imaged twice, by the Voyager 2 spacecraft and
Earth-based Keck Observatory. In that April image, 11 of Uranus’s 13 known
rings could be seen, but the final two were too faint to show up.
Source:
Alex Wilkins 2023.
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