Image of Saturn and several of its moons taken by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument on June 25, 2023. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Tiscareno (SETI Institute), M. Hedman (University of Idaho), M. El Mutamid (Cornell University), M. Showalter (SETI Institute), L. Fletcher (University of Leicester), H. Hammel (AURA); image processing by J. DePasquale (STScI))The first official image of Saturn from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) did not disappoint.
On Friday (June 30), NASA released a stunning JWST image that shows the ringed planet in a whole new light. The image, captured June 25 by the observatory’s NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) instrument, “is already fascinating to researchers,” NASA officials said in image description.