<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1663850528762,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000179-379a-dbb2-a7fd-bfda8bfc0000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1663850528762,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000179-379a-dbb2-a7fd-bfda8bfc0000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_63850523", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1102620"} }); ","_id":"00000183-6538-d7e8-a5d7-67f837a70000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedNASA released new images taken from its James Webb Space Telescope, capturing details of Neptune’s dust bands, which have never been seen in infrared before, and its surrounding moons.
The new photographs, which were taken in July and released on Wednesday, show Neptune’s thin rings, its faint dust bands, and seven of the planet’s known moons.
Space Telescope Neptune
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The images are the first that have been captured since NASA’s Voyager 2 conducted a flyby in 1989, meaning it has been more than three decades since scientists have viewed Neptune’s rings with such clarity, according to the Associated Press. No other spacecraft has visited the solar system’s outermost planet.
NASA launched its Webb Telescope less than a year ago, investing $10 billion into exploring deep into the universe and capturing never-before-seen images. Astronomers hope it will help them look back into the beginning of time when stars and galaxies started to form.
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The images of Neptune come a month after NASA released new Webb images of Jupiter that show the gas giant in detail, revealing its rings and auroras occurring at its north and south poles.
