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The John Batchelor Show

#JamesWebbSpaceTelescope. Uranus and some of its moons. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:39.8

The James Webb Space Telescope is a spectacular success and it turns its camera on Uranus.

0:46.6

What is it seeing, Bob?

0:47.7

This looks like a neon light.

0:49.8

Yeah, that's kind of a good description, John.

0:53.0

This is the second time Webb is taking an infrared image of Uranus false color image.

0:58.0

And I posted a link to the early one in April, but there's a new one that just can't come out and it's basically

1:04.4

looking at the north pole of Uranus because Uranus orbits the sun on its side rolling along.

1:11.1

Its pole almost, right now its pole is almost pointed directly, its

1:14.4

North pole points directly at the sun. And it's got rings, and so this image shows

1:18.5

the rings and the North Pole of Uranus, and they indicates that it's had some

1:24.1

change it there's an activity going on there I posted the wider web

1:29.0

image on behind the black because it not only shows one star but a whole bunch of galaxies

1:34.9

the distance but in addition to that it shows many of Uranus's moons as

1:40.9

well it's kind of cool in that sense. And that's what we're looking at, John. And, you know, it's strange. But once again, infrared tells you things that optical does not. And I also linked to a Hubble optical image so you can get a comparison with between the optical and the infrared and what each tells us.

1:57.0

Someday in the future they're going to know what I'm looking at because I don't, I see the I see the moons at one two three four five five five

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