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On August 23, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released the latest photos of Jupiter taken by the Weber Space Telescope on Monday, saying: "We have never seen Jupiter like this."

As the world's newest and most powerful space telescope, Webb is showing Jupiter, the aurora and everything it has observed in an unprecedented way.

The image of Jupiter released by NASA, taken by the Weber Space Telescope in July, captures Jupiter's unprecedented southern and northern lights and spinning polar haze. Jupiter's famous Great Red spot is surrounded by numerous small storms, which is particularly bright.

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"make way for the largest planet in the solar system! Weber's photos of Jupiter show amazing details of Jupiter, including the ever-changing Great Red spot," NASA wrote on Twitter.

One of the wide-angle photos is particularly striking, showing faint rings around Jupiter and two small moons of Jupiter in the background galaxy. According to NASA, the smaller of the two satellites is only 12 miles in diameter.

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"We've never seen Jupiter like this. It's all incredible," Imke de Pater, a planetary astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who is in charge of the Jupiter observation mission, said in a statement. "to be honest, we really didn't expect the pictures to be so good."

"it's really amazing that we can see the details of Jupiter and its rings, small moons and even background galaxies in the picture," de Pet said. "

NASA explained that the Weber Space Telescope used a special camera with an infrared filter to capture these details. The human eye cannot detect infrared directly, so the data collected by Webber's infrared camera are "translated" into images with the help of citizen scientist Judy Schmidt, using unique tones to represent different wavelengths of light.

To highlight these features, the researchers artificially painted Weber's infrared images in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to a team of American and French scientists.

The $10 billion Weber Space Telescope, built by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), was launched at the end of last year and has been observing the universe in infrared since the summer. Scientists hope to use Weber to see images of the early universe, meaning that observations of the universe date back to the formation of the first stars and galaxies 13.7 billion years ago.

The Webb Space Telescope operates at L2, the Lagrangian point about 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth.

Earlier this month, NASA released images of Weber's wheel galaxy, a distant galaxy located about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Yufu.

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