![]() ![]() Not only can you see the glorious rings, but you can also pick out high-flying methane clouds as bright streaks. The image captures the planet’s near-infrared glow in unprecedented detail. Nikk Ogasa, staff writer for physical sciences, says: There are so many awe-inspiring space images out there, but my favorite from this year was the James Webb Space Telescope’s heavenly shot of Neptune. NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI, JOSEPH DEPASQUALE/STSCI It’s the first direct look at Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years. JWST’s close-up of Neptune, taken in 2022 Neptune and its rings glow in infrared light in this image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Though I’m lukewarm about sending people to do extraterrestrial exploration – I think the risks outweigh the scientific benefits – I have always been a sucker for imagining living on another world. ![]() That’s our robotic avatar on that planet, rolling around doing our work. You can see the rover and the landscape behind it. NASA’s Curiosity rover used a camera on its head and one on its robotic arm to create this selfie with Mont Mercou in March 2021. I feel similarly about the selfie images from the Mars rovers here’s NASA’s Curiosity rover at Mont Mercou in 2021. I can imagine my own feet in those gray craters, my own eyes looking back at my own Earth. And something about having the surface of the moon in the image gives me deep chills. She says: The you-are-there, sci-fi-but-it’s-real feeling of seeing Earth over the edge of the moon gets my imagination going. Lisa Grossman, astronomy writer, chose Apollo 8’s Earthrise as her top space image. The Apollo 8 crew orbited the moon 10 times during late December of 1968, capturing this view of Earth. ![]()
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