Alabama Webb telescope fans have a chance to hear telescope chief engineer Dr. Jonathan Arenburg at the RocketCenterUSA. Arenburg will speak July 15 about the telescope’s design and development.
New images of Saturn and its rings by the James Webb Space Telescope are fascinating scientists and the public and Webb fans in or near Alabama have a chance to hear the telescope’s chief engineer talk about the telescope at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville.
On June 25, 2023, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turned to famed ringed world Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet. The initial imagery from Webb’s NIRCam is fascinating researchers. The telescope discovered “surprising and unexpected detail” in the ringed planet’s atmosphere, NASA said. It’s the first time Saturn’s atmosphere has been seen with this clarity at a wavelength unique to Webb. “The large, dark, diffuse structures in the northern hemisphere do not follow the planet’s lines of latitude,” NASA said. So this image doesn’t have the familiar stripes typically seen in the planet’s atmosphere.
Saturn’s rings and atmosphere have been tracked for decades by numerous spacecraft including Pioneer II, Voyagers 1 and 2, the Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope. “These observations from Webb are just a hint of what this observatory will add to Saturn’s story in the coming years as the science team delves deep into the data to prepare peer-reviewed results,” NASA said.
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