NASA's James Webb Space Telescope sends back new images of Neptune

22 September 2022

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has sent back its first images of Neptune

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The clearest photos of the eighth planet from the Sun's rings in more than 30 years, the space agency said on Thursday.

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The new images give a "crisp" view of the ice giant planet's rings, NASA said in a news release.

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Some of those rings have not been detected since NASA's Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Neptune in 1989.

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"It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we've seen them in the infrared,"

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James Webb interdisciplinary scientist Heidi Hammel said in a statement, praising the telescope's extremely stable and precise image quality.

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To closely monitor the temperatures of the gaseous planet, researchers have only been able to use ground-based telescopes. 

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The Webb images come as NASA troubleshoots a problem with the $10 billion deep space telescope. 

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Following the discovery of a fault with one of the telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument settings, scientists stated on Wednesday. 

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Neptune was first discovered in 1846, located 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth. 

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