JWST Just Dropped Its First, Raw Images of Saturn And We're Totally Gobsmacked
JWST Just Dropped Its First, Raw Images of Saturn And We're Totally Gobsmacked
We've just been given a teaser of the moment everyone has been waiting for: a James Webb Space Telescope image of Saturn, in all its resplendent glory.
This is just a teaser and I'm looking forward to the finished images.
However it always amazes me how disappointingly non-detailed pictures of planets can be even on the most powerful telescopes. Because they're that far away! It takes something like Cassini going all the way there to give us a better look.
That said, the most powerful view of Saturn for me was the one I saw with my own eyes through a local telescope. It was just a little blurry thing but just actually seeing it there with the ring shape with my own eyes was indescribable.