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NASA Shares Stunning Image of Jupiter Captured by Webb Space Telescope...Offering a “Jovian view” of the massive planet.
https://hypebeast.com ^ | Aug 22, 2022 | Staff

Posted on 08/23/2022 5:23:19 AM PDT by Red Badger

NASA has shared a new image taken by its James Webb Space Telescope. Earlier this month, the space agency published photos of Cartwheel Galaxy. The galaxy is located in the Sculptor constellation approximately 500 million light-years from Earth.

Now, NASA is using the telescope to get a closer look at the planet of Jupiter and its surrounding moons. As the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is considered the third brightest object in the night sky from Earth, following the Moon and Venus.

The new photograph was composed using two filters on the Webb’s NIRCam instrument, an imager that detects light to study how and when stars, planets and galaxies were formed.

“In this wide-field view, Webb sees Jupiter with its faint rings, which are a million times fainter than the planet, and two tiny moons called Amalthea and Adrastea,” NASA observed. “The fuzzy spots in the lower background are likely galaxies “photobombing” this Jovian view.”

The space agency said that the telescope’s future Jupiter observations will aid scientists in learning more about the planet’s inner life.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; jupiter; jwst; science
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To: Red Badger

Simply AMAZING!!!!!


21 posted on 08/23/2022 6:39:29 AM PDT by bantam
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To: Nifster

Thanks again for your work.


22 posted on 08/23/2022 6:43:49 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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To: HighSierra5

So many responses and so little time.


23 posted on 08/23/2022 6:45:02 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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To: ArtDodger

LOL.

I remember decades ago, Uranus was pronounced as if people were saying “your anus”. Apparently due to the dirty jokes provoked, nowadays most people pronounce it similar to “your in us”.

But couldn’t that sound like “urine-us”, and similarly provoke dirty jokes????


24 posted on 08/23/2022 6:52:50 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Magnum44

They mention that the rings are about 1 million times fainter than the planet. The pixels are sampled by analog-to-digital converters (ADC) to digitize the data for each pixel. A 16-bit ADC only has a full resolution of 65,536. For a resolution of one million they would need a minimum of a 20-bit ADC. I know that there are 16-bit, space qualified ADCs. And 20-bits is absolute minimum because you need headroom above max signal level so they would probably need 24-bits. And I don’t know if there are even non-space 20-bit ADCs. That is why I thought they had to be using a dynamic range compression scheme like what I mentioned before. It is probably why old images don’t show the rings.


25 posted on 08/23/2022 7:15:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

True so I wonder what the halo type thing is? Maybe just a photo artifact.


26 posted on 08/23/2022 7:17:21 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Magnum44

I did a web search and did find 20-bit and 24-bit ADCs, but the sample rate is really slow. Much to slow to handle a large CCD array that would take these images.


27 posted on 08/23/2022 7:23:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

When it comes to “Gas” giant planets. Just how much of them are gas and what kind?


28 posted on 08/23/2022 7:44:19 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Red Badger

It’s a gas gas gas gas


29 posted on 08/23/2022 7:45:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: Red Badger

And a Storm bigger than the earth spiraling merrily away.


30 posted on 08/23/2022 7:56:43 AM PDT by halfright (His will be done, not mine. But HAMMER THE HECK OUT OF VOTER ID!!)
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To: Red Badger

What is is with the ‘spikes’ around brighter dots?

They are also around the planet too, looking like clouds north and south of the planet.

Were those expected?

Can they be filtered out?


31 posted on 08/23/2022 8:02:27 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K

https://www.theverge.com/23220109/james-webb-space-telescope-stars-diffraction-spike


32 posted on 08/23/2022 8:16:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: halfright

For a loooooong time.

Galileo first noticed in his ‘new’ telescope.............


33 posted on 08/23/2022 8:20:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: painter

Mainly HYDROGEN, HELIUM, METHANE, AMMONIA and WATER VAPOR..........................


34 posted on 08/23/2022 8:23:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: painter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant


35 posted on 08/23/2022 8:27:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Yardstick

Except that “surface” is just the denser part of the atmosphere. The real surface is probably quite a few miles below that.


36 posted on 08/23/2022 8:56:54 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

Actually that is what I thought.I always wondered if Jupiter could be ignited and become a dwarf star.


37 posted on 08/23/2022 9:04:51 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: painter

Jupiter would need much more mass to become a star.........................


38 posted on 08/23/2022 9:43:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: painter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf


39 posted on 08/23/2022 9:45:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Yardstick

Yeah, right ...not sure what the whole hubbub is about, frankly. Kind of a cool image, but beyond that, 🤨🧐


40 posted on 08/23/2022 10:02:37 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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