Astronomers and everyday people alike have been impressed by the images of distant galaxies and Earth's nearby neighbors that the James Webb Space Telescope has provided.
NASA says the clearest image of Neptune's rings in more than three decades has been seen by the deep space telescope.
NASA said that the telescope delivered an image of Neptune and seven of the known moons. Dust bands can be seen around the planet.
"It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we've seen them in the IR," said a Neptune system expert.
I cried when I saw the first Neptune images. I yelled "O M G - LOOK AT THE RINGS" to my children and my mother.
The planet Neptune is usually blue due to methane in the atmosphere, but it is actually white in color. NASA says the light around Neptune is caused by high-altitude methane-ice clouds reflecting sunlight.
The photo shows one of Neptune's moons. One could easily mistake it for a distant star because of the spike in the image. According to NASA, 70% of the sun's rays are reflected by the frozen, Condensed Nitrogen covering the surface of Triton.
The image of the rings is the clearest it has been since 1989, when NASA's Voyager 2 became the first craft to cruise by Neptune.
The farthest planet in our solar system is Neptune, which takes 165 Earth years to complete its circle. NASA says a day on Neptune is 16 hours.
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