JWST Just Dropped Its First, Raw Images of Saturn And We're Totally Gobsmacked

3 years ago by fossilesque to c/astronomy

We've just been given a teaser of the moment everyone has been waiting for: a James Webb Space Telescope image of Saturn, in all its resplendent glory.
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glasslyrata 6 points 3 years ago

This is just a teaser and I'm looking forward to the finished images.

However it always amazes me how disappointingly non-detailed pictures of planets can be even on the most powerful telescopes. Because they're that far away! It takes something like Cassini going all the way there to give us a better look.

That said, the most powerful view of Saturn for me was the one I saw with my own eyes through a local telescope. It was just a little blurry thing but just actually seeing it there with the ring shape with my own eyes was indescribable.

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