Keck Observatory in Hawaii to see if follow-up observations could reveal if the clouds were moving or changing shape. The team of astronomers studying the Webb observations reached out to colleagues at the W. Nixon is also the principal investigator on the Webb observation program for Titan. “Detecting clouds is exciting because it validates long-held predictions from computer models about Titan’s climate, that clouds would form readily in the mid-northern hemisphere during its late summertime when the surface is warmed by the Sun,” cowrote Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on NASA’s Webb blog. Clouds and other features are labeled, including a methane sea called Kraken Mare, the sand dunes of Belet and a bright spot called Adiri. The Webb telescope's instruments captured these views of Titan. Researchers also believe Titan has an internal liquid water ocean. Titan has Earth-like liquid bodies on its surface, but its rivers, lakes and seas are made of liquid ethane and methane, which form clouds and cause rain from the sky. The larger cloud was located over Titan’s northern polar region near Kraken Mare, the largest known liquid sea of methane on the moon’s surface. The Webb telescope observes the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye - on November 5, the telescope spotted a bright cloud in Titan’s northern hemisphere and, soon after, detected a second cloud in the atmosphere. VP Harris, French President Macron see Webb telescope's latest chaotic image If you are interested in exploring the differences between Hubble and Webb's observations of II ZW 96, you can do so here.MIRI was contributed by ESA an NASA/ESA Webb captured this merging galaxy pair with a pair of its cutting-edge instruments NIRCam - the Near-InfraRed Camera - and MIRI, the Mid-InfraRed Instrument. Their chosen targets have already been observed with ground-based telescopes and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which will provide astronomers with insights into Webb's ability to unravel the details of complex galactic environments. An international team of astronomers proposed a study of complex galactic ecosystems - including the merging galaxies in II ZW 96 - to put Webb through its paces soon after the telescope was commissioned. These galaxies, as the name suggests, are particularly bright at infrared wavelengths, with luminosities more than 100 billion times that of the Sun. This observation is from a collection of Webb measurements delving into the details of galactic evolution, in particular in nearby Luminous Infrared Galaxies such as II ZW 96. It is these star-forming regions that made II ZW 96 such a tempting target for Webb the galaxy pair is particularly bright at infrared wavelengths thanks to the presence of the star formation. The bright cores of the two galaxies are connected by bright tendrils of star-forming regions, and the spiral arms of the lower galaxy have been twisted out of shape by the gravitational perturbation of the galaxy merger. As well as the wild swirl of the merging galaxies, a menagerie of background galaxies are dotted throughout the image.The two galaxies are in the process of merging and as a result have a chaotic, disturbed shape. This pair of galaxies, known to astronomers as II ZW 96, is roughly 500 million light-years from Earth and lies in the constellation Delphinus, close to the celestial equator. A merging galaxy pair cavort in this image captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
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