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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Captures Stunning New Images of Saturn and Its Rings

  • JWST released images of Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus showing details of the planets, rings, moons, clouds, and atmospheres.
  • Saturn's appearance changes with wavelength and season; its atmosphere contains hydrogen, helium, ammonia, phosphine, water vapor, and hydrocarbons.
  • Saturn's rings are made of water ice and reflect sunlight, while its atmosphere appears blue without clouds.
  • JWST may reveal more about Saturn's rings and features in the future.
  • The JWST images show Saturn's rings golden in infrared, the planet dark; Jupiter's storms, aurorae, and rings; Neptune's dainty rings and seven moons; and Uranus' 11 of 13 rings and polar brightening.
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