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Neptune's Elusive Rings Captured by James Webb Telescope - IGN

Neptune's Elusive Rings Captured by James Webb Telescope - IGN

Sep 22, 2022 35 secs

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).

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