Neptune and its faint rings wanted new photos, and the James Webb telescope captured them.
The telescope also captured details of the planet's atmosphere. Neptune is made up mostly of hydrogen and helium, but high-latitude clouds of methane can be seen in various regions. A thin bright line near the equator could be a"visual signature of global atmospheric circulation that powers Neptune’s winds and storms," NASA says. The planet can whip up winds of over 1,200 mph.
Near the rings are six of the planet's 14 moons – Galatea, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Proteus and Larissa. In a wide shot of the planet, there appears to be a bright star northwest of Neptune, but that's actually its large moon, Triton, the only known moon that circles its planet in the opposite direction.
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