NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured beautiful pictures of the planet Jupiter which has been showing two small moons, faint rings and auroras at the northern and southern poles.

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An extremely exceptional view to see details of Jupiter in one single image
The composite pictures were taken with the observatory's Near-Infrared Camera 
It was launched in December 2021 from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket

 As per a planetary astronomer Imke de Pater of the University of California, Berkeley 'we did not extremely expected it to be this good, to be honest.' She added 'It's extremely exceptional that we were able to see details on Jupiter beside its rings, little satellites, and even galaxies in one single image.'

De Pater had headed the observations of Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system, with Thierry Fouchet of the Paris Observatory.

Well, the composite pictures were taken with the observatory's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and were unnaturally colored as infrared light was not visible to the human eye.

The auroras which were above the northern and southern poles of Jupiter were mapped in redder colors while on the other hand the Great Red Spot, a storm larger than Earth, seems white.

One image had showed Jupiter's faint rings and its moons Amalthea and Adrastea.

It was launched in the month of December 2021 from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket. Webb has been orbiting the Sun at a distance of a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, in a region of space known as the second Lagrange point.

Therefore, it almost took the spacecraft nearly a month to reach the region, where it would remain in a very mounted position behind the Earth and Sun to present it a complete clear view of the cosmos.

The Webb telescope has been a global collaboration between the US space agency NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency involving over 10,000 individuals.

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