NASA has released new images of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope

The images were taken with the telescope's Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, which employs specialized infrared filters to highlight the planet's details. Source - BBC news

"To be honest, we hadn't really expected it to be this good," Imke de Pater, a planetary astronomer and emerita professor.

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NASA released the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the $10 billion successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, earlier this month.

NASA has described it as the "world's largest and most powerful space telescope" ever launched

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