POT showed new photographs taken by the telescope James Webb after showing their first color images. This time the target was in our solar system.
The US space agency has released new images taken by its instruments during the calibration process. In them we can see Jupiter and its moons.
James Webb continues to amaze us
Although James Webb took the deepest photograph of space to date, it can also capture nearby stars.
To check it out, POT used the near-infrared camera tool’s shortwave filter (NIRKam) telescope.
Using a 2.12-micron NIRCam filter, Jupiter’s moons Europa, Thebe, Metis, and even the shadow of Europa near the Great Red Spot were visible in the resulting image. And when the team used a 3.23 micron NIRCam filter, the resulting image captured some of the rings. Jupiter.
Exploring our own land
James Webb captured these images moving across the field of view in three separate observations, proving that he was able to find and track stars near a celestial body as bright as Jupiter.
Thus, it is confirmed that the telescope can be used to study the moons in our solar system, and it can give us the first images of plumes of material known to be ejected by natural satellites such as Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
“Images Jupiter narrow-band filters were designed to capture good images of the entire disk of the planet, but the amount of additional information about very faint objects (Metis, Thebes, main ring, haze) in these images with exposures of about one minute They were a complete surprise,” said John Stansberry, Observatory Scientist and Head of NIRCam Commissioning at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
The team also tracked asteroids in the asteroid belt to discover the fastest objects they could observe. They found that it could still collect data from objects moving at up to 67 milliarcseconds per second in its field of view.
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