The world’s newest and largest astronomical telescope, the James Webb Telescope, has taken the clearest picture ever of the largest planet in our solar system.
NASA scientists associated with the James Webb Telescope released the image of Jupiter on Monday.
In that picture, the light of the northern and southern corners of the planet and the polar storm are also visible.
The Great Red Spot, Jupiter’s largest storm that covers almost the entire Earth, is clearly visible next to other smaller storms.
Two satellites of Jupiter (similar to our Earth’s moon) are also visible in the James Webb telescope image.
“We’ve never seen Jupiter in this spectacular form before,” said University of California planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, who helped lead the observation.
The United States-France research team revealed that the infrared images taken by the telescope were later coated with blue, white, green, yellow and orange colors.
NASA launched James Webb late last year as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA was helped by the European Space Agency to build this $10 billion telescope.
Scientists hope that with the help of the James Webb Telescope, the mystery of the origin of the universe can be revealed.
This telescope is 1.6 million km above the earth in the sky.
Where is the James Webb Telescope right now?
Webb Orbit
The James Webb Space Telescope will not be in orbit around the Earth, like the Hubble Space Telescope is
– it will actually orbit the Sun, 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from the Earth at what is called the second Lagrange point or L2.
How far back can the James Webb telescope see?
How far back will Webb see? Webb will be able to see what the universe looked like around a quarter of a billion years (possibly back to 100 million years) after the Big Bang,
when the first stars and galaxies started to form. (Picture and Details taken from NASA’s Website)
You can read and watch the full details about James Webb Telescope on the NASA’s website. The link is given below:
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
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