(ORDO NEWS) — Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took a stunning image of the planet Uranus.
This is the first detailed JWST image of Uranus and shows the ice giant’s ring system, its brightest moons and dynamic atmosphere.
In the image, you can see Uranus in all its glory: the planet is in the center of the frame, and its rings encircle it.
Despite the fact that Uranus is not the largest planet in the solar system, its ring system is one of the most complex and diverse.
The image below shows Uranus’ two bright moons, Oberon and Titania, as well as the planet’s dynamic atmosphere.
The JWST image was made by combining data from two filters, which can be seen as blue coloration and orange highlights, respectively.
The typical color image shows a dense icy liquid of water, methane and ammonia above the small rocky core that makes up Uranus, which looks like a light blue snowball.
Uranus has a unique orbit in the solar system, with the ice giant spinning on its side, tilted at roughly a 90-degree angle, matching its path around the sun. This tilt causes Uranus to experience extreme long seasons.
It is currently spring at the north pole of Uranus. This can be seen in the image, where the ice giant’s right side brightens on its north polar ice cap, which faces the Sun.
This is the first time scientists have seen this aspect of the polar cap.
James Webb is a new generation space telescope capable of collecting images in the infrared, which makes it possible to study objects in space with greater accuracy than previous telescopes.
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