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Jupiter’s auroras and hazes are captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Jupiter’s auroras and hazes are captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA reported in a blog post that the James Webb Space Telescope took amazing photographs of Jupiter, which depict auroras, enormous storms, and hazes on our solar system's largest planet. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which was launched on Christmas Day last year, is the largest optical telescope in space. The JWST, the Hubble Space Telescope's successor, is outfitted with high-resolution equipment that allows it to view things that the Hubble could not see because they were too far away or too dim. The JWST is intended to look far back in time to help us comprehend the genesis of our galaxies and the earliest stars. Scientists must, however, evaluate the onboard equipment before launching on these trips. To do so, they have been taking pictures of objects in our solar syst...

China will construct the world’s largest telescope array to research solar outbursts.

According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), China is constructing the world's largest array of telescopes designed to study the Sun. The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope (DSRT) will assist scientists in better understanding coronal mass ejections, which are huge solar eruptions that have the potential to impair worldwide satellite communications. A large 313-dish array of telescopes The DSRT is currently being built on a plateau in southwest China's Sichuan province. The huge telescope array, when completed, will have a radius of 1.95 miles (3.14 kilometers) and 313 dishes, each having a diameter of 19.7 feet (6 meters). The radio waves will be used to observe the Sun using the telescope array. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are huge plasma and magnetic field expulsions from the...

Using data from James Webb’s early release, a new brown dwarf was found.

With the aid of the James Webb Space Telescope, a global team of scientists has discovered a brand-new, faint, far-off, and cold brown dwarf (JWST). The recently found object, designated GLASS-JWST-BD1, is approximately 31 times as massive as Jupiter. On July 29, a paper describing the discovery was published on arXiv.org. Brown dwarfs are thought to be transitional objects between planets and stars. They are generally agreed to be substellar objects with masses between 13 and 80 Jupiter masses. Brown dwarfs of the T dwarf subtype have effective temperatures ranging from 500 to 1,500 K. They are the least bright and coolest substellar objects that have been found so far. Studying T dwarfs may help astronomers better comprehend objects near the disputed planet/star divide, such as la...