It saw the giant planet's two moons and a ring that is a million times fainter than the planet itself.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of Jupiter, which show auroras, giant storms, and hazes on the largest planet of our solar system, NASA said in aLaunched on Christmas Day last year, the James Webb Space Telescope is the largest optical telescope in space. The
, the JWST is equipped with high-resolution equipment that allows it to see objects that were too far or too faint to be spotted by the Hubble.and the first stars. However, before embarking on these missions, scientists need to test the onboard equipment. To do so, they have been snapping up images of objects in our solar system and, in the process finding new information about them.
The longest wavelengths were depicted towards the red end of the spectrum, while the shortest wavelengths were shown near blue. Several images were used to make a single image that captured various phenomena on the planet. In the image, auroras can be seen at high altitudes near the planet's northern and southern poles and have been mapped in red color. A different filter mapping color in yellow to green spectrum shows hazes swirling around the poles, while a third filter shows the light reflected from deeper clouds in blue color.
Interestingly, The Great Red Spot, a giant storm on the planet, appears white in these images. This is also the color that has been used to depict other clouds on the planet since they reflect a lot of sunlight, the blog post said.
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