The James Webb telescope captures stunning images of Jupiter

The polar lights of Jupiter and shimmering clouds can be seen in new images from the James Webb Space Telescope. 

The images were released by NASA Monday. The images were created by combining several wavelengths of light. The images reveal two of Jupiter's moons glinting in its orbit, Amalthea and Adrastea, and its faint rings shining like a halo. The northern and southern lights of the planet are pale fires at their poles. 

The observations of Jupiter were unanticipated, according to planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, professor emerita of UC Berkeley, who led the team. The fact that we can see Jupiter's rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image is truly remarkable.' 

A new NASA space telescope has already wowed the world with its psychedelic images of far-flung galaxies. It is operated by NASA primarily in collaboration with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency.

In these photos, de Pater and Thierry Fouchet, a professor at the Paris Observatory, document what telescopes can do at a closer distance. 

As the near-infrared camera captured the images, they were converted into human-readable colors. In red, the longest wavelengths are visible, while in blue, the shortest wavelengths are visible.

The Great Red Spot on Earth, a centuries-old storm large enough to engulf the planet, appears white as a result of sunlight reflecting off its surface. The dark lines indicate little cloud coverage.

The upper atmosphere of Jupiter creates light displays called auroras when particles from the sun interact with them. In the new images, auroras can be seen at Jupiter's northern and southern poles. 

It was Judy Schmidt, a citizen scientist without formal training in astronomy who has been analyzing astronomy images as a hobby for more than a decade, who arranged the incredible views.

As data from telescopes like the JWST comes in as numbers, not pictures, image processors must translate the data to make sense to us. The fast rotation of Jupiter required Schmidt to stack images from JWST. According to Fouchet, the result summarizes the gas giant at a glance.