‘Incredible’ Jupiter views revealed by James Webb Space Telescope – BBC News

The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope has revealed unprecedented views of Jupiter.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took the pictures of the Solar System's biggest planet in July.

The images show auroras, giant storms, moons and rings surrounding Jupiter in detail that astronomers have described as "incredible".

Viewed as the successor to the famous Hubble telescope, the JWST is expected to be a dominant force for discovery in the next 20 years.

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[RonK]

1:39 "The telescope is currently positioned about 1.6km from Earth."
Yeah, well done, BBC. Next time have someone writing who's slightly interested in the subject

[loveisall]

Beautiful! Imagine what we could be doing and seeing if we didn't have to waste so much money on wars and military spending-

[hungryghost]

The telescope is 1.6 MILLION kilometers from Earth (at the second Lagrange point ~ "L2"), not 1.6 km from Earth.

[CaptainWilliamTRiker]

I remember flying around there on a training mission. Looks stunning in real life.

[chrisaguilera]

There is so much beauty out there just waiting for us to see. I wish we could see more of this. No doomsday, no war, no strife, no suffering. Our species is too disconnected right now. We're just focusing on all the wrong things that want to hurt us.

[jowarnis]

"The telescope is currently positioned aoubt 1.6km from Earth" :D I guess its supposed to be 1.6 million km, still funny though.

[toyomade]

Epically beautiful.. JWST is a gift to all mankind and I’m so glad we pulled it off successfully. I was nervous when it was being shipped, launched, traveling, deploying.

Million and one things needed to go right and we came together, brightest among us, and pulled it off!

Well done!

[Isambardify]

Aren't a lot of those photos from Juno? At least stick a caption on.

[reubenkinsey]

Thank you JWT, and to all the scientist who worked so hard getting this project going 🙂✌️

[gdewyg]

Thanks to all scientists for bringing unknown closer to us

[akyhne]

"The telescope is currently positioned above 1, 6km from Earth"
🤔

[yogeshgrover]

There is some mistake I think as in the video its mentioned that the telescope is currently positioned about 1.6km from Earth, which is incorrect.

[theblossomingrealm]

The téléscope is not 1.6km from earth like written in this BBC clip.
It is in orbit at Lagrange point 2 which is away.

[matthewbrightman]

The new telescope is positioned 1.6 km from earth. Wow, that’s a whole mile!

[franciscovarela]

JWT "positioned 1.6km from Earth" Who wrote that bit of copy? "telescope detects light travelling towards Earth 13bn years ago"? Although this is true of the JWT's reach it has nothing to do with the pictures of Jupiter, a planet between 35 and 52 light minutes from Earth depending on the planets' relative orbital positions. In any case, these are spectacular images of the largest planet in the solar system as far as we know today.

[RetroMarkyRM]

I live in Swindon...it's in the South West not east!

[SpaceImplorerExplorerImplorer]

1:40 “The telescope is currently positioned 1.6km from Earth.” How did they even get this wrong?

[JStrummer]

Some of those photos are from Juno. James Webb can't see the poles, it's positioned on Jupiter's ecliptic plane.

[PeterK]

"The telescope is currently positioned about 1.6km from Earth"
I think they forgot to add some zero's ...

[mtwi]

1:37 ...subtitel says the Telescope is located 1.6km aways from the earth, are they sure? They should worry about a collision with the Burj Khalifa If so