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🎶 Fresh photos with the bomb lighting New @NASAWebb images processed by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt in collaboration with scientists show the giant planet in infrared light. These observations complement measurements taken by spacecraft like the Juno Mission, and can give scientists more clues to the inner workings of Jupiter’s systems. Data from telescopes like Webb doesn’t arrive on Earth neatly packaged. Instead, it contains information about the brightness of the light on Webb’s detectors. This information arrives at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Webb’s mission and science operations center, as raw data. STScI processes the data into calibrated files for scientific analysis and delivers it to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes for dissemination. While a team at STScI formally processes Webb images for official release, non-professional astronomers known as citizen scientists often dive into the public data archive to retrieve and process images, too. In the first image, created from a composite of several images from Webb, auroras extend to high altitudes above both the northern and southern poles of Jupiter. In the second image, a wide-field view shows Jupiter with its faint rings, which are a million times fainter than the planet, and two tiny moons called Amalthea and Adrastea.
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