James Webb telescope captures surreal images of Jupiter's auroras
The photos shed more light on the gas giant's behavior.
NASA, ESA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso (UPV/EHU) and Judy Schmidt
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NGC7293 Helix Nebula in Acuarius In Infrared.
Spitzer Telescope/ NASA. Procesed: Judy Schmidt.
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James Webb / Hubble
astronomy image processing by Judy Schmidt
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Glowing Dust of NGC628
Colorized by Judy Schmidt
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Infrared Rho Ophiuchi Clouds © Judy Schmidt
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1. Young Stellar Object in LDN 1471 | 2. A small portion of NGC 2023. / By Judy Schmidt.
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Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Credits: NASA, ESA, Hubble, License, Judy Schmidt
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This image represents Saturn as it appeared on 2019 June 20th. Five of its moons are visible: Enceladus, Epimetheus, Mimas, Tethys, and Janus.
Credit: Judy Schmidt
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2024 February 4
The Cone Nebula from Hubble
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA - Processing & Licence: Judy Schmidt
Explanation: Stars are forming in the gigantic dust pillar called the Cone Nebula. Cones, pillars, and majestic flowing shapes abound in stellar nurseries where natal clouds of gas and dust are buffeted by energetic winds from newborn stars. The Cone Nebula, a well-known example, lies within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264. The Cone was captured in unprecedented detail in this close-up composite of several observations from the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. While the Cone Nebula, about 2,500 light-years away in Monoceros, is around 7 light-years long, the region pictured here surrounding the cone's blunted head is a mere 2.5 light-years across. In our neck of the galaxy that distance is just over half way from our Sun to its nearest stellar neighbors in the Alpha Centauri star system. The massive star NGC 2264 IRS, seen by Hubble's infrared camera in 1997, is the likely source of the wind sculpting the Cone Nebula and lies off the top of the image. The Cone Nebula's reddish veil is produced by dust and glowing hydrogen gas.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240204.html
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Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) – and alignment due to the planet’s rotation.
Check out the auroras at Jupiter’s poles as seen by Webb’s NIRCam instrument! 🤯
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.
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*pops up from an irregularly scheduled lotr reread with blood in my teeth* your honor i simply care so much about him
(lagoon nebula photo by judy schmidt, whose astrophotography is, just, so incredibly cool, and you should check out the rest of her work if you like this kind of thing)
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Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso (UPV/EHU) and Judy Schmidt.
New JWST images of Jupiter highlight the planet's features, including its turbulent Great Red Spot (shown in white here), in amazing detail. These images were processed by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt.
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