NASA releases first images of Saturn taken with new telescope

[KGlock]

 

[JoelB]

when you consider that our eyes are only processing a tiny fraction of the light spectrum youll really begin to understand how little we really perceive in the greater scheme of things

ive said it before but its the things that we think we know that we should study more intensely

this is deep

 

[The God Poster]

Correct me if i'm wrong but don't telescopes only see infrared and the images we see afterwards are artificially colored?

This is what I was wondering

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

That’s crazy what’s making em radiate like that? Are they just filled with neon?

Saturn, like other gas giants such as Jupiter, radiates heat due to its internal energy sources. The primary source of Saturn's radiation is its core, where gravitational compression and residual heat from its formation generate energy. This energy is released as heat and contributes to the planet's overall temperature. Additionally, Saturn's upper atmosphere absorbs sunlight and re-emits it as thermal radiation. This combination of internal heat and absorbed sunlight accounts for Saturn's radiation.

 

[J.E.T.S]

That’s spooky as hell

 

[NoMorePie]

Since we on the topic of space

This has possibly got to be the most surreal photo ever taken

 

[Givethanks]

Looks like something out of Halo

 

[Ghost Utmost]

...yooo, this can't be real!

I will attempt to have a serious discourse.

The actual images are in part wavelengths of light that are not visible to the human eye.

The output from the actual data might resemble a black and white photo.

But you end up with multiple images. Infared. Ultraviolet. Visible light. And whatever they are detecting.

Then. They colorize the different layers. The result is something that the human eye cannot completely register. It includes the information from wavelengths our eyes cannot see.

So yes. It is "photoshopped". There is an artistic element to these images. They are designed to sum up all the information the telescope can record. And it adds resolution to the image.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Saturn’s Rings Shine in Webb’s Observations of Ringed Planet – James Webb Space Telescope

blogs.nasa.gov

Those photos are cold. If humanity ever figures out a way to actually stamp out capitalism and replace it with something better, we'd be mining these planets and their moons and terraforming them.

Imagine if all of Elon musk and Jeff bozos net worth went into projects for NASA, the ESA

 

[African Peasant]

 

[TEH]

New cartoons

 

[TEH]

Neptune and uranus go hard

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

Since we on the topic of space

This has possibly got to be the most surreal photo ever taken

pale blue dot pic. everything that has ever existed in our world is in that one little pixel

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Why build a satellite if your just going to Photoshop pictures

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Pretty