Pasumicha. Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope le took a picture of Uranus and its rings… which is really impressive.
The image shows the planet’s ice rings and even some bright features visible in the planet’s atmosphere. Even the faintest dust rings are visible.
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Before proceeding it is important to mention The rings of Uranus have only been photographed twice before: by the Voyager 2 space probe in 1986 and the Keck Observatory.
Uranus has a total of 13 known rings, 11 of which can be seen in the recent image. Some are so bright that they appear close together and seem to merge into a larger ring.
Experts explain that 9 of the rings are classified as major rings and the other two are dusty rings that are much weaker. The known twenty-seven moons of Uranus also appear in the picture And in this photo, 6 of the brightest ones stand out.
To capture the image, the telescope used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) with a short 12-minute exposure using only two filters: one of 1.4 and 3.0 microns, shown here in blue and orange. Here we leave the image with a zoom in order to see the planet in more detail.
What do we know about Uranus?
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and it is unique: it rotates on its side, At an angle of about 90 degrees, which leads to higher temperatures.
The planet’s poles experience many years of continuous sunlight and then an equal number of years of complete darkness. Just to give us an idea, Uranus takes 84 Earth years to fly around the sun.
Now it is late spring in the Arctic and summer until 2028. In the Antarctic now it is complete darkness.
This planet is an ice giant because of the chemical composition of its interior. It is believed that most of its mass is a thick fluid of icy material such as water, methane and ammonia that rests on a small rocky core.
Now that James Webb has taken a picture of Uranus and its rings, we can learn more about this distant planet in the solar system.
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