NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to show us our universe like never before. JWST’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured Jupiter’s auroras and its faint rings, which are a 1-million times fainter than the planet, along with two tiny moons: Amalthea and Adrastea. The smokey spots in the lower background are thought to be entire galaxies.
JWST captured these infrared images on July 27th, showing the Great Red Spot and numerous storm systems in unprecedented detail. We also get to see the transition between organized zonal flows and the chaotic vortex patterns at higher latitudes. We hope JWST captures more detailed images of WASP-121b, a hot Jupiter with a night side that rains titanium.
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We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all quite incredible. We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest. It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites and even galaxies in one image,” said Imke de Pater, planetary astronomer and professor emerita of the University of California, Berkeley.
