Images taken by the James Webb telescope also captured unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern auroras. The photos also show Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm large enough to engulf Earth, moving across the planet along with countless smaller storms. A wide-field image shows faint rings around the solar system’s largest planet as well as two tiny moons. “We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all incredible,” planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. He helped lead the observation. “We didn’t really expect it to be this good, to be honest.” Image: This field photo shows Jupiter’s tiny moons Amalthea and Adrastea The infrared images were artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to the American-French research team, to distinguish the features. The successor to NASA and the European Space Agency’s £8.5bn Hubble Space Telescope was launched by rocket late last year and has been observing the world since the summer. Read more: Scientists discover what may be the most distant star ever seen The James Webb Telescope fires thrusters to reach final stop a million miles from Earth and begin orbiting the sun New image from space telescope NASA’s James Webb reveals details of the Cartwheel galaxy Scientists hope to see the dawn of the universe with Webb, looking back to the time when the first stars and galaxies formed 13.7 billion years ago. The observatory, located a million miles from Earth, will also scan for signs of extraterrestrial life. Scientists released the plans of the solar system’s largest planet on Monday.
