A stunning image of our solar system’s ice giant, the planet Uranus, captured it. James Webb Space Telescopedeveloped NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) And Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

A new image shows off his impressive rings. Heaven has 13 acquaintances ringseleven of which are visible in these images.

They are among them two fainter dust rings;which were obtained twice more: by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which flew by the planet in 1986, and by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii using advanced adaptive optics.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is unique in that it rotates sideways, at an angle of almost 90 degrees to the plane of its orbit. This causes extreme seasons as its poles experience many years of uninterrupted sunlight followed by an equal number of years of total darkness.

It is currently late spring at the north pole that is visible, and summer at the north pole will be in 2028. In contrast, when Voyager 2 visited Uranus, it was summer at the south pole, which is now on the dark side. planet .

In James Webb’s images, we see the planet in greater detail, demonstrating just how dynamic Uranus’ atmosphere is.

On the right side of the planet is a region of brightness at the pole facing the Sun, known as the “polar cap” – it appears when the pole is exposed to direct sunlight in the summer and disappears in the fall.

Data from the space telescope will help scientists understand the currently mysterious mechanism behind this feature.

James Webb also took pictures of many of the 27 known moons of Uranus.