The American space research agency NASA has published eye-catching pictures of the planet Jupiter (Jupiter) taken with the help of the world's most powerful telescope James Webb Space. In addition to the rings of the largest planet in the solar system, its three moons - Europa, Thebes and Metis - are clearly visible. The images were released by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
The image of a nebula called SMACS 0723 taken with this telescope was released by US President Joe Biden at the White House on July 12. More photos have been released since then. NASA researchers took three images of Jupiter before July 12 to verify that Webb's instruments were ready to collect data for the study. Those images are now on display at the Space Telescope Science Institute's Michalski Archive for Space Telescopes.
Brian Holler, a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said the deep field images released that day and the new images of Jupiter together demonstrate the full observational power of the web; From distant faint galaxies to images of our neighboring planets—which you can see from your own backyard with the naked eye.
