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Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes!!! Make way for the king of the solar system! 👑

New Webb images of Jupiter highlight the planet's features, including its turbulent Great Red Spot (shown in white here), in amazing detail. These images were processed by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt.

The two images come from Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument, which has three infrared specialized filters to showcase details of the planet. Since infrared light is invisible to the human eye, the light has been mapped onto the visible spectrum. Generally, the longest wavelengths appear more red and the shortest wavelengths are shown as more blue.

Much more here (🤩): https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/08/22/webbs-jupiter-images-showcase-auroras-hazes/?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=NASA%27s+James+Webb+Space+Telescope&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=178177185&fbclid=IwAR1URlCgPuUTlTKB6ntuuHReR4BQ6kU4JjVSUU-MysLo-7hF3LKuk_-awCE

Credit Image and Caption: NASA James Webb Telescope

The tiny pink dot in the center of this image is a magnetar — a type of neutron star with the most powerful known magnetic fields in the Universe. If a magnetar was located a sixth of the way to the Moon (~64,000 km), it would wipe the data from all of the credit cards on Earth!

The strength of Earth's magnetic field has a value of about 1 Gauss, while a refrigerator magnet measures about 100 Gauss. Magnetars have magnetic fields of about a million billion Gauss.

Credit Image: Chandra X-ray Observatory

The Cartwheel Galaxy is a ring galaxy 500 million light-years away, in the Sculptor constellation.

by JWST

It's here – the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.

Previewed by President Joe Biden on July 11, the image shows us galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of full-color images and data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

Southern Ring planetary nebula

by James Webb Space Telescope