New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune’s Rings in Decades

NASA ^ | September 22, 2022 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Webb Ping!.................

[MtnClimber]

Nice Photo!

[SaveFerris]

Ice 🥶🧊🥶 cold

[HamiltonJay]

Amazing...

I still recall just seeing Saturn’s rings in a small backyard telescope for the first time as a child, and later as a teenager looking through an observatory telescope and seeing Jupiter...

Amazing how far we have come in some ways, and yet, in other areas, we seem to have regressed, sometimes as a direct result of the progress in other areas.

[Dan in Wichita]

I was 10 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I envisioned myself walking on the surface of the moon as a tourist, possibly sometime in the 2020s.

As you said, we have regressed in some areas, space travel among the foremost.

[HamiltonJay]

The greatest minds of my grandparents generation worked to take us to the moon….

The greatest minds of this generation are working on getting you to click more ads…

[central_va]

Are there rings around Uranus?

[DoodleBob]

I'd like to ask you one last time. Conduct yourselves with the utmost maturity.

[srmanuel]

I think they are called Clingons but I could be mistaken.

[Track9]

Looks like deep sea images.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We’re finally getting our $11 BILLION dollars worth out of this thing. ;)

Stunning, actually.

[Chode]

looks luminous...

[Verginius Rufus]

I think I managed to see Neptune through a small telescope in my parents' back yard many years ago. Neptune was discovered in 1846--it took until 2010 for it to complete one orbit since its discovery.

When I was a kid, my father told me no one knew what the far side of the moon looked like. That was true at the time but it wasn't much later that the Soviets first managed to photograph the far side.

[telescope115]

I think you misspelled “Clintons”…

[NorthMountain]

I looked it up ... freezing point of methane is 93K. For reference, liquid oxygen is 90K, liquid nitrogen is 77K, and liquid helium is 4K.

Yeah.

It’s cold.

[NorthMountain]

Over budget, and late ... but I’m glad it works.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m not going to be happy until we get Pluto back as a planet. :(

Or, my flying car that Popular Mechanics promised me back in the 60’s. :)

[NorthMountain]

Pluto is not coming back ... unfortunately.

By any objective definitions, apparently we either have 8 planets or at least 17. There are 9 KNOWN “dwarf planets”, Pluto being one of them, that are planetary sized but haven’t gravitationally cleared all the junk in the neighborhood of their orbits. But I do rather miss it.

The flying car?

I’m a bit hacked off about not having that.

;’}

[nomorelurker]

“Nice Photo!”

Yes it is.