The James Webb Space Telescope has only been up and running for a few weeks.
A pair of high-resolution images of Jupiter show the northern lights around the poles. The images are a result of combining multiple images taken with the telescope's Near IR camera into a single high definition image.
In the wide-field image, you can see Jupiter's faint rings, as well as two of its moons: Adrastea is the faint dot at the edge of the rings, located between Amalthea and Jupiter. There are faint dots of light behind the stars.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is live.
Imke de Pater, professor emerita of the University of California, Berkeley, said that they had not expected it to be this good. The Jovian observations were part of the Early Release Science program. She said it was remarkable that we could see details on Jupiter together with its rings, satellites, and even galaxies in one image.
The second image is a close-up of Jupiter, which uses three filters to capture the atmosphere of the planet.
The Great Red Spot has high altitude hazes because of the brightness that indicates high altitude. The cloud tops of the convective storms are likely to be very high.
The colors of the images are not what we are used to. The colors of the two images are not the colors we see with the naked eye because they are false-colors.
It's related to Jupiter as well. There are new photos of giant planet's rings and moons.
That brings about an interesting point about how the system works Scientists only receive raw data that tells them how bright a photo is when they take it. Scientists have to process the data to make the images.
The Space Telescope Science Institute is based in Baltimore and usually does that. In the case of this pair of images, the data was processed by a citizen scientist. She collaborated with a co- investigator on the observations from the University of the Basque Country in Spain.
Schmidt processed her first image, taken by Hubble, more than a decade ago. If it's not close to what your eye can see, I try to make it look natural.
The images are also valuable for other things. In this case, Jupiter and its moons are being demonstrated by De Pater and Fouchet's research. The team will study Jupiter's cloud layers, winds, composition, Auroral activity, and temperature structure, as well as map the surfaces and atmospheres of Jovian moons.
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