A new look at giant Jupiter

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope, has produced some brilliant views of Jupiter this July. Scientists have released two images that show parts of Jupiter more clearly than ever before. The JWST doesn’t just take pictures and send them back to Earth. Instead, it sends data about brightness picked up by its detectors. Scientists analyse this data and turn it into pictures. These new images were “taken” with the telescope’s Near Infrared Camera. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, so the information had to be converted into colours that humans can see. This is why Jupiter doesn’t look as red as it does in most pictures. Each image shows clearly the planet’s glowing auroras at each of Jupiter’s magnetic…

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