NASA took to Twitter to share the recently released James Webb Space Telescope images with the world. The picture features Neptune and its rings. According to the American space agency, Webb has not just captured the clearest view of this distant planet’s rings since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by it in 1989, but its cameras reveal the ice giant in a whole new light.
In a NASA release, Heidi Hammel, a Neptune system expert and interdisciplinary scientist for Webb, said, “It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we’ve seen them in the infrared.” The images perfectly capture the faint rings of the planet.
