For its latest images, the Webb telescope looked closer to home

NASA has released two more images that show the largest planet in the Solar System.

The telescope's Near-Infrared Camera was used to capture the data used to process the images. By observing Jupiter at these wavelength beyond visible light, the powerful space telescope is able to tease out details of the planet.

Jupiter's powerful magnetic field can be seen in a photo that shows the Auroras at the poles. The colors are false because the light is invisible to the eye.

The new images show Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" but it is not as red as before. The white color shows the reflection from high-altitude clouds.

A second image gives a better view of the Jovian system and includes a view of the planet's thin rings, two small moons, and the extent of its Auroras. The rings are 1 million times fainter than the planet and it's hard to see them from afar. In the background, there are distant stars.

Imke de Pater is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

She said in the news release that they had not expected it to be this good. It's amazing that we can see Jupiter with its rings, satellites, and even a galaxies in a single image.

It has taken so long for the images to be processed. The answer is that the James Webb Space Telescope does not have large mirrors that can be used to take pictures. The data from the detectors is sent to the Space Telescope Science Institute. The best of which are publicly released are translated by scientists.

Citizen scientists can use the data in this repository to process images. JudySchmidt did the processing work for the Jupiter images. She collaborated with a researcher at the University of the Basque Country in Spain on the image.