LOS ANGELES, April 6 (Xinhua) — NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of the solar system’s other icy giant, planet Uranus, the agency said Thursday.
The new image shows eye-catching rings as well as bright features in the planet’s atmosphere.
The new image of Uranus was taken by the James Webb Near Infrared Camera on February 6. The planet appears blue in the color representative image, which was created by a combination of data from two 1.4-micron and 3.0-micron filters, and appears in blue and orange, respectively.
The James Webb telescope data proves the observatory’s unprecedented sensitivity to the faintest dust rings, which have only been imaged by two other facilities: the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby of the planet in 1986, and the adaptive optics system Keck Observatory. advanced, according to NASA.
The James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s premier space science observatory, is an international program led by NASA with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Webb will solve mysteries in the solar system, look beyond distant worlds around other stars, and investigate the structures and mysterious origins of our universe and our place in it, according to NASA.