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Credit & Copyright: NASA,
ESA,
CSA,
Jupiter ERS Team;
Processing:
Ricardo
Hueso
(UPV/EHU) &
Judy Schmidt
Explanation:
This new view of Jupiter is illuminating.
High-resolution
infrared
images of
Jupiter from the new
James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) reveal, for example,
previously unknown differences between high-floating bright clouds --
including the
Great Red Spot --
and low-lying dark clouds.
Also clearly visible in the
featured Webb image are
Jupiter's dust ring, bright
auroras at the poles, and Jupiter's moons
Amalthea and
Adrastea.
Large volcanic moon
Io's magnetic funneling of charged particles onto
Jupiter is also visible in the southern aurora.
Some objects are so bright that light noticeably
diffracts around
Webb's optics creating
streaks.
Webb, which
orbits the Sun
near the Earth, has a mirror over 6 meters across making it the
largest astronomical telescope
ever
launched -- with 15 times
more light-collecting area than
Hubble.
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