The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which Earth is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a g ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

Eventually, the frustrated Galileo decided never to look at Saturn again. Now, of course, we have much better telescopes, and we know that Galileo was looking at the planet’s unique set of wide, thin ...

A photo of Saturn taken by the Hubble Telescope last October. Small dark marks called ring spokes are visible ... light ranging from ultraviolet to near-infrared from Saturn.

Montage of JWST MIRI/MRS observations of Saturn in November 2022, requiring four tiles to study Saturn’s northern hemisphere and rings. MIRI is sensitive primarily ... The Leicester team used the ...

Chariklo is a small icy body that, like the planet Saturn, has rings. JWST helped confirm ... since Voyager 2 flew past the distant giant in 1989. The infrared wavelengths that JWST is designed ...

In the new picture from the telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), four of Saturn ... giant’s recognizable bands, and in their place is a darker-looking orb encircled by the rings.

At the end of June, the telescope turned its Near-Infrared Camera camera toward gas giant Saturn ... but shows Saturn and its glorious rings in amazing colors. The planet itself appears dark ...

It shows the sparkling rings of the giant planet almost floating by themselves. Saturn itself doesn’t really shine in infrared. A different release shows a little bit more of the ringed planet ...