: In photos: Five of the most thrilling telescope images of the cosmos #IndiaNEWS The James Webb Space Telescope is set to unprecedented new opportunities for astronomers. It is also a timely opportunity

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In photos: Five of the most thrilling telescope images of the cosmos #IndiaNEWS
The James Webb Space Telescope is set to unprecedented new opportunities for astronomers. It is also a timely opportunity to reflect on what previous generations of telescopes have shown us.Astronomers rarely use their telescopes to simply take pictures. The pictures in astrophysics are usually generated by a process of scientific inference and imagination, sometimes visualised in artist’s impressions of what the data suggests.Choosing just a handful of images was not easy. I limited my selection to images produced by publicly-funded telescopes and which reveal some interesting science. I tried to avoid very popular images which have already been viewed widely.The selection below is a personal one and I am sure many readers could advocate for different choices. Feel free to share them in the comments.1. Jupiter’s polesThe first image I have chosen was produced by NASA’s Juno mission, which is currently orbiting Jupiter. The image was taken in October 2017 when the spacecraft was 18,906 km away from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds. It captures a cloud system in the planet’s northern hemisphere and represents our first view of Jupiter’s poles (the north pole).The images this picture is based on reveal complex flow patterns, akin to cyclones in Earth’s atmosphere, and striking effects caused by the variety of clouds at different...Read more

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