The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has revealed unprecedented views of Jupiter.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the largest planet in the Solar System in July.
The images show the auroras, giant storms, moons and rings surrounding Jupiter in detail that astronomers described as "incredible".
The infrared photos are artificially colored to make the features stand out, the BBC reports.
It was explained that this was done because infrared light is invisible to the human eye.
"We've never seen Jupiter like this. It's all pretty amazing," said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, who played a key role in the project.
"We didn't expect it to be this good, to be honest," she added.
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is an international mission led by the US space agency NASA with its partners from the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
The telescope was launched in December 2021 and is currently located about 1,6 million kilometers from Earth.
It can detect light that began traveling toward Earth 13 billion years ago, moments after the Big Bang.
The telescope, seen as the successor to the famous Hubble telescope, is expected to be a dominant force for discovery for at least the next 20 years.
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