James Webb captures a unique view of Uranus’s ring system

The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a festive new image, showcasing the captivating rings of Uranus.

While these rings may be challenging to discern in visible light, making Uranus less commonly associated with rings like Saturn, they radiate brightly in the infrared wavelength detected by Webb’s NIRCam instrument.

Captured in even greater detail than a previous image released earlier this year, this new view reveals additional wavelengths, providing enhanced visibility of the rings, including the seldom-seen Zeta ring—a faint ring of material positioned just a few hundred kilometers above the planet’s clouds.

The image also features several of Uranus’s 27 moons, some situated outside the rings and others within. Notably, the image exposes surface features on the planet, particularly its polar ice cap.

The bright dot at the center represents the ice cap’s core, surrounded by a darker area at the base of the cap, Digital Trends reports.

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