Calculating The Surface Area Of A Sphere. Found On Imgur.

Of course Saturn brought its ring light.

On June 25, 2023, our James Webb Space Telescope made its first near-infrared observations of Saturn. The planet itself appears extremely dark at this infrared wavelength, since methane gas absorbs almost all the sunlight falling on the atmosphere. The icy rings, however, stay relatively bright, leading to Saturn’s unusual appearance in this image.

This new image of Saturn clearly shows details within the planet’s ring system, several of the planet’s moons (Dione, Enceladus, and Tethys), and even Saturn’s atmosphere in surprising and unexpected detail.

These observations from Webb are just a hint at what this observatory will add to Saturn’s story in the coming years as the science team delves deep into the data to prepare peer-reviewed results.

Download the full-resolution image, both labeled and unlabeled, from the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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Pendulum and light. Via here

'Endless Loop'. Max Bill. 1953-1956.

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Robert Mangold - Compound Ring Study (2011)

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Treating a human head the way a globe is treated by the Mercator projection.

The regular hexagon hidden in a cube unfolds to a straight line on a net of the cube.

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