Neptune's Elusive Rings Captured by James Webb Telescope - IGN
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed the sharpest view of Neptune’s rings since the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited the ice giant over 30 years ago.
The New James Webb Space Telescope portrait of Neptune (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI).Now, a new image captured by the powerful James Webb Space Telescope has given us the best view of Neptune’s rings since Voyager 2 visited the distant world 30 years ago.In the infrared part of the light spectrum, Neptune’s rings reveal themselves as a collection of well defined halos circling the ghostly planet, punctuated by a population of diffuse dust bands.
An annotated, infrared view of Neptune captured by the JWST (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI).