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Good morning. It is December 19, and as we get nearer to the year-end holidays your humble house correspondent is beginning to get a bit of stir-crazy. Therefore the explanation for right now’s stomach, I imply abominable, headline.
This amazingly cool picture of Uranus comes from the Close to-Infrared Digital camera on the James Webb House Telescope. This wide-field picture reveals Uranus with an assortment of background galaxies and 14 of its 27 moons, together with Oberon and Titania. We are able to additionally see the north polar cap gleaming a shiny white, in addition to the planet’s relatively faint (in seen mild) interior and outer rings.
I’ve additionally included the close-up picture of Uranus, which is absolutely fairly beautiful with all of its varied rings.
A detailed-up view of Uranus.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
You in all probability already know that this ice big of a planet is the seventh one in our Photo voltaic System from the Solar. Hopefully, we’ll be seeing extra of this gleaming big in our lifetimes, with astronomers lately putting a Uranus orbiter as the very best precedence science exploration mission for NASA to sort out subsequent.
Supply: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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