Posted on 12/19/2023 7:39:24 PM PST by GemStateConservative
Stunning new images released by NASA on Monday detailed new images of Uranus, revealing a stunning look at its glowing rings and one rarely seen feature.
The photos, taken by NASA’s high-power James Webb Space Telescope, captured the icy planet along with its multiple inner and outer rings, nine of its 27 known moons and a seasonal polar cap.
The new pictures offer a rare glimpse of the “elusive” Zeta ring, an extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet — shown in a reddish brown.
Multiple other rings were captured in a glowing blue.
The Webb telescope also grabbed snapshots of atmospheric happenings on the freezing planet, including Uranus’ seasonal north polar cloud cap and several storms near it.
Uranus, a glowing blue and white sphere with several blue rings surrounding it captured in space 3 The images of Uranus were captured by the high-power James Webb Space Telescope. NASA Uranus with labeled moons and stars in wide view captured by Webb space telescope 3 The images offer a rarely seen glimpse of Uranus’ faint, inner Zeta ring and captured several of the planet’s moons. NASA The polar cap becomes more pronounced when Uranus’ pole shifts toward the sun as it approaches solstice and receives more sunlight. The planet’s next solstice is in 2028.
Uranus has the most extreme seasons in the solar system because it spins on its side at a tilt of about 98 degrees, according to NASA. While the sun shines over one pole, the other pole is plunged into a dark, 21-year-long winter.
“With Webb’s unparalleled infrared resolution and sensitivity, astronomers now see Uranus and its unique features with groundbreaking new clarity,” NASA said. “These details, especially of the close-in Zeta ring, will be invaluable to planning any future missions to Uranus.”
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Those rings are probably from poor hygiene.
Not going there. Too easy.
This one is one of the better ones.
Fry: Oh, man, this is great! Hey, as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus.
[He laughs.]
Leela: I don’t get it.
Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all..
Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum.
No Klingons present.
I found this jewel - election dawn... in 2015.
Donald Trump - Never Come Down (10 HOUR VERSION)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcEc8zeNYxI
Spamming FR threads, one at a time!
Talk about a hanging curve ball of a headline!
Somebody had fun with this one.
The Babylon Bee will be unable to resist copying this headline.
;-)
C’mon, man! These are, always some of the best threads!🤣
What a huge waste of money. It’s not that expensive to take pictures. A cheap camera will do.
Better yet. Just search on Google or one of those XXX sites.
The jokes write themselves.
When something enters orbit around Uranus, you will know...err...ah...so I’ve heard.🙄
The JWST has eight diffraction spikes, actually. The two smaller ones are from the secondary mirror supports. You can always tell it’s a JWST picture because of them.
Those would be farging iceholes.
We have here a recurrent FR test - is there a shot so cheap you won't take it?
Nope. There's a Dremel tool attachment that works just fine.
Thanks! I never noticed it before, but the star(?) far left in post #9 does show the two minor spikes quite clearly.
Hunter Biden objects!
Resist I must.
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