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For a second I thought this was Saturn and said “don’t we have better images of this?” Then I actually read it’s Neptune and realized all our good images of it
by guhidalg 4y ago
For a second I thought this was Saturn and said “don’t we have better images of this?” Then I actually read it’s Neptune and realized all our good images of it come from probes. It’s crazy JWST can just see the rings and the moons, incredible observatory.
- anigbrowl 4y agoMy understanding is that this isn't even the 'good' camera, just the comparatively low-resolution infrared one.
- adastra22 4y agoJWST is meant to see in infrared. That’s it’s good (only?) camera.
- svachalek 4y agoIt has 4 different instruments though, I believe this is the NIRcam and the MIRI can also take pictures. I'm not sure that either one is necessarily "better" than the other though.
- hrnnnnnn 4y agoWebb has two main cameras, NIRCAM for near-infrared, MIRI for mid-infrared. MIRI is lower resolution because it's looking at longer wavelengths. This image is from NIRCAM, so it's the highest res Webb can do. Neptune is small in the image because it's very far away. The images you see of detailed nebulae are so high res because, even though they're further away, those nebulae are enormous.