“Never before had we seen Zeus like this. It’s something incredible. To be honest, we didn’t really expect the images to be this good,” said lead researcher Imke de Pater, professor of astronomy at the University of California-Berkeley.
US astronomers have released stunning new photos of Jupiter, the first taken by the powerful new space telescope James Webb from the largest planet in our solar system.
The infrared pictures taken at the end of July and then artificially colored provide, among other things, the best observations to date of the huge aurora that forms at the two poles of Jupiter. Also visible are the familiar Great Red Spot (a giant storm), other smaller storms, faint rings, and its two smaller moons, Amalthea and Adrasthea, about 200 and 20 kilometers in diameter respectively.
“Never before had we seen Zeus like this. It’s something incredible. To be honest, we didn’t really expect the images to be this good,” said lead researcher Imke de Pater, professor of astronomy at the University of California-Berkeley.
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