Neptune, its ring system, and its moon Triton in a frame from the James Webb telescope 🔭

2.68 billion miles from Earth

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/new-webb-image-captures-clearest-view-of-neptunes-rings-in-decades/

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/reprocessed Andrea Luck

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Neptune, its ring system, and its moon Triton in a frame from the James Webb telescope 🔭

2.68 billion miles from Earth

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/new-webb-image-captures-clearest-view-of-neptunes-rings-in-decades/

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/reprocessed Andrea Luck

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🔭 Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune • Harvard & Smithsonian

｢ The tilt of 2020 VN40's orbit means that the objects are not actually close, because 2020 VN40 is actually far below the solar system- they only appear close when flattened onto a map. All other known resonant trans-Neptunian objects orbit such that they avoid this alignment at their closest approach to the sun, even in the flattened view ｣

https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-discover-rare-distant-object-sync-neptune

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