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An image titled James Webb Space Telescope, Uranus, September 4, 2023. An image with a black background, a glowing orb near the center surrounded by rings. There are smudges that are background galaxies scattered throughout the image and several bright blue point sources that are the planet’s moons. From top to bottom, there are 5 large moons: Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, and Miranda. Close the planet are smaller moons 9 smaller moons. Clockwise they are: Perdita, Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona, Cressida, Bianca, Portia, and Juliet. At the bottom left are compass arrows indicating the orientation of the image on the sky. The north arrow points in the 12 o’clock direction. The east arrow points toward 6 o’clock. Below the image is a color key showing which filters were used to create the image and which visible-light color is assigned to each infrared-light filter. From left to right, Webb NIRCam filters are F140M (blue), F210M (cyan), F300M (yellow), and F460M (orange). A scale bar at the lower right of the image is about one-seventh the total width of the image, and text below it reads 16 arcseconds.

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An image titled James Webb Space Telescope, Uranus, September 4, 2023. An image with a black background, a glowing orb near the center surrounded by rings. There are smudges that are background galaxies scattered throughout the image and several bright blue point sources that are the planet’s moons. From top to bottom, there are 5 large moons: Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, and Miranda. Close the planet are smaller moons 9 smaller moons. Clockwise they are: Perdita, Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona, Cressida, Bianca, Portia, and Juliet. At the bottom left are compass arrows indicating the orientation of the image on the sky. The north arrow points in the 12 o’clock direction. The east arrow points toward 6 o’clock. Below the image is a color key showing which filters were used to create the image and which visible-light color is assigned to each infrared-light filter. From left to right, Webb NIRCam filters are F140M (blue), F210M (cyan), F300M (yellow), and F460M (orange). A scale bar at the lower right of the image is about one-seventh the total width of the image, and text below it reads 16 arcseconds.
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Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 15:04:21 JST Kelly Lepo

Here is a new 4-color #JWST image of the planet Uranus, along with its rings and moons, adding two filters to the 2-color version released earlier this year.
The labeled blue, star-like things are Uranus' moons, including its five major moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. We also see a smattering of the smaller moons near the rings, named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
More: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-150

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