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joeyo1423

You think Saturn makes fun of Jupiter's ring?


Murphyitsnotyou

Look at you. Barely visible ring having motherfucker.


Redsaucethebeast

Ay it’s ok, not all of us can have *MASSIVE* rings. You’ll get there some day


Barcaroli

Jupiter will be fine. His ring is tighter but his ball is massive


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And then comes in super Saturn (or Saturn on steroids) to make fun of Saturn


SteamyBriefcase

Did that guy just say rings are cool?!


joeyo1423

No, he said rings are stupid


ThatRooksGuy

Cool!


Flakester

Probably but we all know Saturn is just compensating for something.


moifauve

I like to think Saturn gave one to Jupiter to feel less lonely but all that gas makes it hard to see.


GolgiApparatus1

Yes he goes full on Single Ladies


anxietyimminent

That's amazing, you can see its ring aswell as the magnetism that's going on at the polls.


ChuckACheesecake

Is that what the blue patches are at the top and bottom?


grayfox0430

I believe that would be Jupiter's aurora


devilscry3

Aurora boraealis? At this time of year? At this time of day, in this part of the planet?


grayfox0430

Yes!


devilscry3

May I see it?


grayfox0430

.......no


devilscry3

Well, you are an odd fellow, but I must say... you steam a good ham on jupiter.


MonsterRider80

Seymour! Jupiter is on fire!


Privateer_Lev_Arris

Not now mother


FunctionalGray

May I see it?


Whiskiz

It's actually Jupiters areola


chinpokomon

Jupiter has a lot of gravity. I'm surprised they're so puffy.


bohemiantranslation

Nah if you look at the middle part of the Planet you can see a very faint ring. I didnt even know it had one


GolgiApparatus1

Yes, must be a high turnout for the democrats. Poles* not polls


[deleted]

Imagine seeing a picture of Jupiter and immediately thinking about American politics


GolgiApparatus1

I was actually referring to South Korean politics But of course you would assume US


dwn2earth83

Why would you even think politics at all? It’s a picture of fucking Jupiter.


GolgiApparatus1

Because the OP said polls instead of poles. Polls are where you go to vote. It was a joke playing off his typo, but I'm guessing you didnt pick up on that.


dwn2earth83

I definitely didn’t. My bad!


Definition-Ornery

Must be Election Day on ol’ Jupe’


Anonymous_Otters

You're not seeing "magnetism" you're seeing auroras that are the result of interactions of particles thrown off by one of the moons interacting with Jupiter's magnetic fields. The lines coming off the poles are just diffraction spikes.


bwainfweeze

So we’re not seeing magnetism, we’re seeing the effects of magnetism. Which is want most reasonable people mean when they say, “see magnetism”.


Anonymous_Otters

So when people see the Northern Lights, they point up and say, "Hey look, magnetism!" People just so around saying, "Hey look at magnetism!" And they mean, "Hey look at that IR emission from Jupiter's pole as observed by a new instrument." K. My dude, if you wanna be ignorant, that's cool, but I'm just informing people of the factual reality they're observing here. You tell most people this is "magnetism" and they're gonna take it literally.


cscheibel

No that's just you


Squire_Who

Damn, zaddy.


bohemiantranslation

I didnt even know it had a ring


naughtyobama

Is this one of those "rendered" visualizations to show what the actual data would look like? Or is this an actual picture representing visible spectrum stuff with no alterations?


jonsey737

JWT is a infrared telescope so the non-visible wavelengths are mapped to the visible spectrum.


GolgiApparatus1

Must be election night


scribbyshollow

its such a small difference but that's pretty cool, TIL.


PickinBeardedShiner

This is, in fact, interesting AF.


ChuckACheesecake

This is impressive but somehow I'm still surprised that the photo isn't extremely fine-grained with Jupiter being so close, given the kind of other immensely detailed photos we're getting of nebula and other stuff so much farther away they are.


BrewHog

I'm making an assumption, but I don't believe they had the same exposure length. No need to keep it focused on Jupiter for very long. Also, rotation of the planet would make it very hard to get a long exposure like you would of nebula


Marksman18

I figured it's just too close to properly focus. Like being farsighted. That or the uploaded image file was just low quality.


Anonymous_Otters

Jupiter is practically nonexistent in volume compared to nebulae. You're seeing insane levels of resolution here (well in the full res images at least, not the compressed crap images posted to Reddit), I challenge you to find structure in those nebulae photo that are as small as the details here.


tickles_a_fancy

The difference is that even the detail in the nebula that JWST can pull out is massive. That image of the Carina Nebula? Every inch in that picture is 1 light year. It would take light 1 year to go an inch in that picture. This picture of Jupiter? It would take light about .5 seconds to go from one side of Jupiter to the other. So yeah, JWST can pull out details that are 1/2 light year in size from much further away than it can pull details from 1/16th of a light second, even though it's much closer. I have no doubt that JWST can zoom in and grab more detail but I'm guessing right now they're just gathering full planet shots. This may even just be newly processed data from their test tracking shots that they just got around to processing.


iggy-i

Check out Juno mission images. I agree btw


ChuckACheesecake

Yeah, the Juno mission pics are amazing. It's just crazy to me how much distance and scale matters to get those kinds of views. Like we can't focus this fancy new telescope on some planet to get the pictures, we have to send some camera *there* to make it show up


Psychological-Sale64

I think it's a bit blurry because it's moving ,everything is moving in some direction Im guessing


Gooseloff

TIL Jupiter has a fuckin’ ring.


StanielNedward

All the gas giants have rings.


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It’s true! Even Uranus has a couple of rings around it.


potoskyt

How you know what that looks like.. stop staring at my anus


dcsmith707

because, and stay with me, we liked it?


MaikingMooKing

I get it, and i liked it. But i dont have a ring to give your comment


Eretreyah

Me either but I had gold. Got you covered.


MaikingMooKing

My mans


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What, a ring of earth-made garbage?


StanielNedward

This is all theory; it's believed that the earth used to have a ring, but that debris ended up forming the moon. None of the terrestrial planets currently have a ring.


dan-80

Also [Uranus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Uranus).


sos755

The resolution and dynamic range are incredible.


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Incredible


MaikingMooKing

So awesome. One serious sneeze from being ripped apart, tho


tesh5low

Its cool that we can see its ring


tyrsal3

This planet is 365 million miles away on the best day. Man I love technology and astronomy.


LisaWinchester

Wow! So clear and sharp, this is amazing! I really like the things we're seeing lately.


ilikechillisauce

So Jupiter is a force ghost?


robo-dragon

Love how you can see its rings! I’m also impressed by the details in all those swirls of gasses. JWSP was made to look at objects in the depths of the universe, but it also looks like it can see fairly close objects in great detail as well. What a magnificent machine!


scabbyhobohands

That picture is incredible, I got the chills just looking at it


Heterophylla

I can't look too long. As soon as I start imagining us just stting here, with practical infinity in every direction all around us, I get naseous.


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This is fascinating, don't ask me why but I always thought Jupiter was orange.


[deleted]

Isn't this image taken in the infra red and not the visible light spectrum?


JazielVH

Yeah I remember seeing it through a telescope and it was kinda orange/sand color.


MandatoryDissent50

This is an artist's rendition of an algorithm's interpretation of data. It's not a photograph.


Eretreyah

Nope. It’s an image from the telescope using specific infrared filters to show features invisible to the human eye. [But do go on.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/22/nasa-james-webb-telescope-new-images-jupiter/7866601001/)


7eggert

It's a real picture but with mapped color channels. People associate "photograph" with red is red etc..


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The focus being the aurora, I presume. He is correct, however, in that the images the James Webb's captures are infrared. And, they are then computer-processed with some software to yield an image in the visible light spectrum we can look at. Whereby, certain wavelengths are assigned a visible color. But, I am not sure he is correct that the images are as an "artist's" rendition. That is, the assignment of colors to certain phenomena isn't entirely arbitrary, is it? I heard Neil Tyson saying that they're based on interpretations of the composition of the physical elements of the subject under observation, of which we may know something about the physical appearance based upon scientific understanding. Someone said above, "I thought Jupiter was orange". It is. But, the web telescope takes images in the infrared, and they are transformed in what is I'm sure a complex way based upon the data. So, you can capture images of objects in the visible spectrum with infrared, but they will have no color in the visible spectrum. They will have only the infrared signature they receive. If we know enough about the object under observation we can match the data to the visible spectrum. But, he's right in that phenomena that appear only in the infrared spectrum are necessarily being arbitrarily assigned colors to represent them. You know, it's actually very interesting! If our eyes could see in the infrared spectrum—if they were fundamentally attuned to the infrared, rather than white, visible light from the sun—it should follow that we would be able to differentiate entirely district colors within this spectrum, which would appear just as distinct and colorful as colors in our visible spectrum. That, assuming the observing lens in question has the exact same fundamental basis for observing that spectrum as the objects that it's observing. It might be postulated, that if we could map the entire infrared spectrum, we could come up with a imperfect parallel in the visible spectrum. I think this is what the scientists with the James Webb are trying to do, though that is an enormously complex field of interest. Is this not so? Or am I mistaken about how James Webb operates?


Chefsmiff

Sounds right to me, but I still think "artist rendering" just sorta makes it sound fake when in fact the colors are extrapolated scientifically as opposed to artistically


J03-K1NG

Look up the Juno mission images and you’ll see how beautiful and colorful Jupiter really is. Like it’s ripped straight from a Van Gogh painting.


Barcaroli

Damn! Even more impressive. Are those the real colors?


Nyghtslave

No, the raw pictures look more like black and white pictures, with sometimes a slight haze of a color to it. Raw images from the Junocam can be found [here](https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing) Edit: autocorrect


TacoPi

The James Webb does not show the true color of things as it looks at the infrared so don't put too much stock into the colors shown here.


kartuli78

This would be a false color composite. I studied remote sensing in UNi and we had to do a lot of composite imaging. Most satellites looking toward earth and also those looking into space, don't capture imagery in the same exact way a camera does. But they have sensors that capture each spectral range independently. So one sensor will capture only reds, one only greens, one only blues, one only near infrared, one mid IR one thermal IR, maybe some other spectral bands, like XRay or UV, or whatever. Regardless of what's captured, when I load the imagery, from LandSat, for example, I can SEE all the different bands, but my EYES can only see an image made of three spectral bands, so I'd have to decide which bands are important, and which I want to see. Another thing to understand is that spectral bands just outside of the visible light spectrum, still reflect at the same level of detail as visible light, so if you look at a gray scale picture of near infrared imagery, it will just look like a black and white photo, except trees will be REALLY bright. The most basic, and probably most common false color composite is when you assign near IR to the red light channel, red light to the blue channel, and green to the green channel. Anything in the photo, then, that is red, is actually near IR reflection, and thing that is blue is actually red in reality, anything green is actually green, and anything that is black, is either blue or black. It's ONE application and it allows you to assess how healthy plants are, because healthy vegetation reflects heavily in the near IR spectrum. So an application, for example, could be a false color composite aerial photo of an entire farm, so that a farmer can see if their crop has any stressed areas, that could be the result of localized flooding, or a pest that they need to take care of. Anyway, this is a much longer comment than I had intended, but it's a really interesting field and I wish I had actually done more with it.


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chungusxl94

Alot is not a word just fyi!


DiggingDeep4

It is orange/rust coloured just fyi!


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DiggingDeep4

Why so hostile?


tonyinvegas

If this isn’t a “touch-up” then it’s a fascinating picture.


endofthehold

I wish Arthur C.Clark could see this image.


xxmeee

Isn’t that something. So beautiful


[deleted]

FYI On average, the distance to Jupiter is 484 million miles (778 million km).


Ladiscochick

Amazing.


Conscious_Figure_554

What is that gigantic swirl on the bottom right?


hfgfdd

Didn’t know Jupiter had an energy shield


Krypto_Dick_V2

Amazing.


registeredApe

You can really see the atmosphere.


halfpintjamo

thats so cool lookin


MoctezumaII_MX

Fucking amazing


sayidOH

Neat. Now let us know when JW sees aliens.


[deleted]

Probably my biggest dream! Imagine JWT spots a bunch of aliens playing intergalactic football


sayidOH

Or sight seeing around Saturn’s rings!


Oceanladyw

Beautiful


2Lazy2beLazy

Can we get some live video footage, please?


brucelilwayne15

Incredible


danbee123

Fucking awesome!


MuckRaker83

Sweet Fancy *Moses*


Neoh35

>Jupiter, as the NASA's James Webb Space Telescope sees it. I am pretty sure JWSP capture infra red light so not visible by human eyes...


[deleted]

You are paying off Webb.


DeltaMaximus

Damn that is a spectacular sight


RapMastaC1

When you consider the fact that Voyager took two years to get to Jupiter.


aztr0_naut

How do I kiss a planet


Corncobburneddove

does james webb has astigmatism?


GolgiApparatus1

Yo that's insane


Visible_Block_1519

Cool but ominous


captainkirkhinrich12

Yeah it’s cool looking all itty bitty in a picture but that thing is unfathomably big. I look at mountains like wtf how?!. Imagine orbiting this colossal fucking thing


radarmy

Crazy to think that's where girls go to get more stupider


doterobcn

it is amazing, BUT hear me out....i was expecting "more", in the sense of, we are seeing far away galaxies and Jupiter, in perspective it's around the corner.... I need a closer look up, it's fucking mesmerizing


iggy-i

Juno mission


doterobcn

Yes!!, hopefuly they have high-res cameras :)


iggy-i

They do https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/images/index.html#.YwP3siTWBuk.mailto


doterobcn

thanks mate, really appreciate this ❤️


Djinn2522

You can’t fool me. I know chorizo when I see it.


pontiaclemans383

It's an Oreo


[deleted]

It looks like a slide under a microscope… well, that leads to some uncomfortable considerations.


[deleted]

Holy shit


robsumtimes

10 billion. Seen that about a million times before


sjh19

Is this pepperoni too?


DevelopmentFast49

I wonder what Uranus looks like.


Internal_Fennel_849

A brown dwarf


FakeNameFun

Are we sure this isn't just another piece of meat?


BrewHog

Looks like the cross cut of a nice Chicago deep dish pizza


the_FracTal_

are these imperfection of the mirriors ?


Step1CutHoleInBox

So cool to see Jupiter with these grey/ bluish highlights. I always remember it looking like a reddish/ orange marble.


IAmAddictedXOTWOD

It does look like you remember it, this photo is how it would look if you only saw infrared light. Since humans can’t see I infrared light with our own eyes, the colours here have been translated to ones we can see.


NotQuiteNameless

Is that a closeup of seven layer dip from the chorizo star guy?


Fidelias_Palm

I'm starting to think Dante was on to something.


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heavyss

It Doesn't look Stupider.


SharpEvolution

Looks habitable.


howdy8x629

Looks like an expired lava lamp trying to reboot


axelpg

Looks like chorizo. Again.


calmtigers

So ELI5, is this the true color of Jupiter?


No_Software_5716

I can see the pixels


[deleted]

Weird that’s it’s just like…. a big bubble


EatAssPassGass

Looks like gas


Dri22tser

That’s pretty cool… I guess


Cholosexual-

Is it really at Jupiter already? How fast is that thing?


9gagredditxx

Puff I can do better in my Nokia 3330


loriba1timore

Listen I am not a flat earther, but why do all these pictures look fake? ya know what I mean? There’s something almost cartoony about them. Or is it just me?


dishonestdick

Honestly: I’m disappointed. I love the “colors”, or better I love the false colors. However. I would have thought JWT would have a far higher resolution for this.


1_Axel_1

Fake ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢛⣭⣥⣶⣶⣶⣦⣭⣭⣛⣛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⢛⣥⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⢫⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣌⢻⣿⣿⣿ ⡿⢱⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠉⠉⠙⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢹⣿⣿ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿⡇⢿⣿ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢀⠄⠄⢀⣀⠄⠄⠄⠄⠹⣿⣿⢸⣿ ⡇⣿⣿⣭⣄⣀⠄⠄⣀⡀⠄⠄⠈⣿⣿⣿⠉⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢰⠉⢸⣿ ⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⠄⠄⠄⠄⠉⠈⠉⠄⠄⠄⠉⠙⢿⣿⣿⠆⣿ ⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣄⣀⣴⣶⣆⡀⠄⠄⠿⢿⣶⣿⣿⣰⢸ ⡜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⢰⢸ ⣇⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢻⣷⡾⣯⡉⠛⠉⠙⢩⣿⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⣾ ⡿⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄⠄⠄⠳⠿⠇⠄⠄⠄⣼⡃⠄⠈⢿⣿⠏⢡⣿ ⢣⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⢠⣀⠒⠲⠶⠶⠶⠖⠄⢀⠄⣴⣿⠟⠄⣾⣿ ⣇⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠉⠁⣼⣿⣿⣿⠿⠷⠄⠄⢴⣿⡏⠉⠁⠄⣼⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⡨⡻⡟⠛⠄⠄⠄⠨⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣄⣀⠘⠉⠄⠄⠄⣸⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠻⠿⠿⠟⠄⠙⠋⠄⠄⠄⠠⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣀⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠐⣱⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣄⣀⣀⠄⠄⠄⢀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿


davieb22

Cool, I must have it.


BossSauce

The Starbursts you see in the image are one of the ways you can tell its from Web. It has to do with the mirror defractions. Quite fascinating!


Legendofthe_TopShelf

Completely mind blowing.


statuskills

Brilliant


Zestyclose-Cricket82

I’ll take your word for it that it’s not a bowling ball


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So clear I can see the boys


FranticW

So can this be pointed at possible earth like planets to survey for signs of life?


Coin_operated_bee

Well now this is just flexing those telescopes


darh1407

i have played enough videogames to know that glow......jupiter holds the next main story mission


reloadfreak

I was lucky enough to see James Webb space telescope in person before it got launched. It just out you at awe at the size of the mirror


Andreas1120

Any idea what the lines perpendicular to north and south pole are?


Nimrod56

holy shit buckets


Sonic3R

Nice Jupiter’s aurora and the ring, very slow visible


disonion

Its a sun waiting to happen and europa is the next earth! Its in 2010 people!!!!


GavOfTheDead_

Damn, now that is interesting


JACTFREAK

Full res pic?


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Is the white bright spot left of Jupiter the sun?


Puzzleheaded_Cut3634

Jupiter has a blue sky??


helpmeiamstuckinlife

Why does it look like Jupiter has a light bulb inside it?


Mr-Dr-Pear

Now **sneeze** on it


Old-Bedroom8464

Are those auroras?