James Webb Space Telescope captures strikingly crisp images of Neptune and its rings

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures strikingly crisp images of Neptune and its rings. Webb also captured seven of Neptune’s 14 known moons, including its largest moon, Triton. The images show Neptune’s fainter dust bands, which haven’t been observed since Voyager 2 got the first photographic proof of the existence of the rings during its flyby in 1989. Neptune is the most distant planet in our solar system, 30 times farther from the sun than Earth, the sun is so small and faint that noon on Neptune is similar to a dim twilight on Earth.

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