The NASA has published new impressive images of the gaunt giant obtained thanks to a telescope tool, Nircam.
Le Monde with AFP
Two small moons, nebulous rings and shiny poles: NASA has published impressive new images of Jupiter thanks to the James-Webb space telescope.
“It is really remarkable to manage to see details on Jupiter with his rings, his little satellites and even galaxies, all this in one image”, welcomed Monday Imke de Pater, astronomer at the University of California in Berkeley, in an article in the NASA blog.
To the poles of the most massive planet of our solar system emerge from the lights that it looks like fluorescent: it is the dawn of Jupiter which, as for our earth, are made up of particles from the sun which react to the magnetic field of the star.
These images also present the surface of this sparkling giant with its winds, storms and fogs.
A wider view of Jupiter watch with its very fine rings, and two moons, amalthée and adrasted.
Image obtained by NASA at the end of July 2022. (NASA via AP ) AP
These images are drawn from the observations of a tool by James-Webb, the Near Infrared Camera (Nircam), which observes the nearby infrared, a field invisible to the naked. The data collected, which will be studied by the researchers to better understand the internal functioning of Jupiter, have been adapted to obtain these illustrations visible by the human eye.
Engineering jewel with a value of $ 10 billion, the James-Webb telescope was launched in space eight months ago and is 1.5 million kilometers from the earth.
