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Stunning Jupiter images show biggest planet has a lot going on

The world’s newest and biggest space telescope♎ is showing 𓄧Jupiter as never before, auroras and all.

Scientists released the sđŸģhots Monday of the solar system’s biggest planet.

The James Webb Space Telescope took the photos in July, capturin♔g of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless sm📖aller storms.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms. NASA
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Faint rings around the planet, as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies. NASA

One wide-field picture is particularly dramatic, showing the faint rings around the planet, as well as two 🌠tiny moons against a glitteri🃏ng background of galaxies.

“We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s a🌜ll quite incredible,” planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. He helped lead the observation. “We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest.”

The infrared images we🐲re artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to the US-French res𝔉earch team, to make the features stand out.

NASA and the European Space Agency’s $10 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope rocketed away at the end of last year and has been observing the āĩŠcosmos in the infrared since summer. Scientists hope to behold the dawn of the universe with Webb, pđŸ’¯eering all the way back to when the first stars and galaxies were forming 13.7 billion years ago.

The observatory is positioneęĻēd 1 millionđŸŽļ miles from Earth.