Saturn's rings? Sure, they're nice. But stunning new images of the rings around ice giant Neptune have left NASA scientists ecstatic.
Neptune typically appears blue, attributed to methane in the atmosphere, but pictures from Webb's infrared camera show the planet whiter in color. The new photo shows thin lines of beautiful light around Neptune, which NASA says are high-altitude methane-ice clouds reflecting sunlight.
Neptune typically appears blue in photographs due to methane gas in the atmosphere. This image of the ice giant was taken in 1989 by the Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to travel to the planet.One of Neptune's moons, Triton, can also be seen in the photo. But, because of diffraction spikes in the image, one could easily mistake it for a distant star. Triton's surface is covered in frozen, condensed nitrogen, which reflects an average of 70% of the sun's rays, NASA said.
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