CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Neptune and its rings haven’t looked this good in decades. NASA released new glamour shots of our solar system’s outermost planet...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Neptune and its rings haven’t looked this good in decades.
NASA released new glamour shots of our solar system’s outermost planet Wednesday taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The pictures taken in July show not only Neptune’s thin rings, but its faint dust bands, never before observed in the infrared, as well as seven of its 14 known moons.Launched less than a year ago, the $10 billion Webb is spending most of its time peering much deeper into the universe.
NASA’s Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to see Neptune in all its gaseous glory, during a 1989 flyby. No other spacecraft have visited the icy, blue planet. So it’s been three decades since astronomers last saw these rings with such detail and clarity, said the Space Science Institute’s Heidi Hammel, a planetary astronomer working with Webb.
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