New high-resolution image of Uranus captures both rings and moons

Kamera & Bild has written a lot about the JWST, James Webb Space Telescope, which continuously sends back images from space to us here on Earth – many times absolutely fantastic and with razor-sharp image clarity.

This image of Uranus with its rings and moons, released on 18 December 2023 and taken on 4 September 2023. The ring closest to the planet is described as a very diffuse ring named "Zeta", which is visible in the image along with the outer rings.

The image also shows several of Uranus's 27 known moons, some of which lie outside the rings but many also within them – and are harder to see. Because JWST's nIRCAM camera captures in frequencies near infrared, we can see the whole image of the planet and its area, which means it is not only perceived as a round sphere – like the first images Voyager 2 sent back in the 1980s.