Source, NASA/ESA/CSA/JUPITER ERS TEAM/JUDY SCHMIDT
The world’s largest and most powerful telescope, James Webb, has taken never-before-seen pictures of Jupiter.
The telescope captured the Solar System’s largest planet in July.
Aurora lights, major storms, moons and rings around Jupiter are clearly visible in the images.
Infrared photography was artificially colored because infrared rays are not visible to the human eye.
“We’ve never seen Jupiter like this before. It’s incredible. Even we didn’t expect the images to be this good,” said Imke de Pater of the University of California, one of the project’s lead scientists.
The $10 billion James Webb Telescope project is an international project led by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and supported by European and Canadian space agencies.
Source, NASA/ESA/CSA/JUPITER ERS TEAM/JUDY SCHMIDT
NASA announced that this image of Jupiter was created by combining many photos from the telescope.
Aurora lights, formed by the refraction of sunlight in the atmosphere, can be seen at the north and south poles of the planet.
The white circle in the image is the “Great Red Spot” storm, large enough to swallow even the Earth.
The reason why the storm is white in the image is because it reflects a very serious amount of sunlight.
The James Webb Telescope was launched into space in December 2021 and is now about 1.6 million kilometers from Earth.
The telescope can even detect light that set off towards Earth 13 billion years ago, just after the Big Bang.
James Webb, who replaced the successful Hubble telescope, is expected to be the leading actor in space exploration in the next 20 years.
