[sjmjax]

If I’m reading that correctly, why did it take 34 years for us to see this fly-by photo? Was it part of the “who killed JFK conspiracy”?

[verum ago]

If I’m reading that correctly, why did it take 34 years for us to see this fly-by photo? Was it part of the “who killed JFK conspiracy”?

You didn't read it correctly. This sin't a fly-by photo. This image is from the James Webb telescope, which is the one launched about a year and a half ago.

The blurb at the tail end of the article is merely stating that this is the first time we've gotten an image of all of Neptune's ring system as a whole since Voyager 2 passed by in '89 (Hubble and ground-based telescopes can only pick up the brightest components), and even then only with difficulty.