“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, professor emerita of the University of California, Berkeley of the latest image from the James Web Space Telescope: a photo of Jupiter showing aurora over its northern and southern poles as well as the storm known as the Great Red Spot. Another photo shows Jupiter’s rings, a number of its moons, and even distant galaxies.
The release comes a day after a pair of astronomers released what’s being called the most detailed photograph of the Moon ever taken, a 174-megapixel composite shot.