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Zoomed-in image of Uranus is captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), revealing stunning views of the planet's rings, February 6, 2023. /NASA
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system's other ice giant, the planet Uranus, the agency said on Thursday.
The new image features dramatic rings as well as bright features in the planet's atmosphere.
The new image of Uranus was captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera on February 6. The planet displays a blue hue in the representative-color image, made by combining data from two filters at 1.4 and 3.0 microns, which are shown as blue and orange, respectively.
The Webb data demonstrates the observatory's unprecedented sensitivity for the faintest dusty rings, which have only ever been imaged by two other facilities: the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it flew past the planet in 1986, and the Keck Observatory with advanced adaptive optics, according to NASA.
The James Webb Space Telescope, the world's premier space science observatory, is an international program led by NASA with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
Webb will solve mysteries in the solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it, according to NASA.
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