Hold Onto Your Hats: JWST Unveils Unprecedentedly Crisp View of Uranus And Its Rings [View all]

20 December 2023
By PAUL SQUIRE & MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN, BUSINESS INSIDER



Uranus is beautiful. (NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again.

An enhanced image from the high-powered telescope orbiting in space shows the planet Uranus in stunning new detail.

The photo captures the icy blue planet's elusive rings, atmospheric storms, and many of its 27 moons.



Webb snapped this image of Uranus and some of the planet's 27 moons, like Puck, Rosalind, and Juliet. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScl)
On Monday, NASA the image, which expands on a snapshot revealed earlier this year of the icy tilted world.

The images are a massive step up from the Hubble Space Telescope's attempt, which can barely make out one faint ring around Uranus.



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