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The James Webb Space Telescope’s new image of Saturn.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Tiscareno (SETI Institute), M. Hedman (University of Idaho), M. El Moutamid (Cornell University), M. Showalter (SETI Institute), L. Fletcher (University of Leicester) , H. Hammel (AURA); image processing by J. DePasquale (STScI)
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its stunning, first official image of Saturn and its rings. With this new view of the iconic planet, the telescope has now taken images of all four of the solar system’s gas giants.
In the new picture from the telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), four of Saturn’s rings
