Marvelous images of Jupiter revealed by NASA’s James Webb telescope
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The latest images of Jupiter Rainbow auroras, giant storms and far-off galaxies from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning photographs of Jupiter in fresh splendour.
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"We hadn't really expected it to be this good, to be honest," said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, in news release.
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“Jupiter with its faint rings and two tiny moons, Amalthea and Adrastea, are seen in the new photos.
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As part of an international effort, De Pater led Jupiter observations alongside Thierry Fouchet, a professor at the Paris Observatory.
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The images were taken in July and shared by NASA on Monday, calling them “giant news from a giant planet.”
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It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image,” de Pater said in the news release.
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Planet Jupiter where a day is 10 hours long and has at least 50 moons.
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The four biggest, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, were discovered by Italian physicist Galileo Galilei in 1610.