NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided an image of Neptune that shows the planet’s rings — the clearest view in more than 30 years.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided an image of Neptune that shows the planet’s rings — the clearest view of the rings of this distant planet in more than 30 years.. In addition to several bright, narrow rings, the Webb image clearly shows Neptune’s fainter dust bands.
In the summer of 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe the planet Neptune, its final planetary target, passing about 3,000 miles above Neptune’s north pole.
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