🪐 Images from the James Webb Telescope are showing Jupiter 'in an entirely new light'.
We're seeing Jupiter in an entirely new light, literally, as a result of the James Webb Space Telescope.The two images come from a Near-Infrared Camera, which has three specialised infrared filters.But since infrared light is invisible to the human eye, the light has been mapped onto the visible spectrum."The main point of this telescope is to see far, far, far into the past - to the edge of the universe when time itself began.
One of the new images of Jupiter. Picture by: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso and Judy Schmidt."We're seeing Jupiter in an entirely new light, that is literally the case."But the Webb Telescope can see... they've taken these infrared images and they've turned them into something that our eyes can recognise.
A composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M , F212N , and F150W2 . Picture by: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.
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