Jupiter (James Webb Space Telescope)

Infrared imaging from Webb shows Jupiter's auroras, the Great Red Spot (bright here because it reflects sunlight), its thin ring system, and two small moons.

Instrument: NIRCam · Near-infrared

• Saturn backlit by the Sun, its rings glowing, with a tiny bright point of light that is Earth in the distance.

  Saturn and its rings, with Earth

  Public Domain

  Saturn — The Day the Earth Smiled

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

• A rocky, rust-coloured Martian plain stretching to low hills under a hazy sky.

  Jezero Crater, Mars

  Public Domain

  Perseverance on Mars — Jezero Crater

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

• The layered slopes of a Martian mountain rising above a boulder-strewn crater floor.

  Gale Crater, Mars

  Public Domain

  Curiosity on Mars — Gale Crater

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

• A glowing golden disc of the Sun with bright active regions and looping arcs of plasma.

  The Sun

  Public Domain

  The Sun in Extreme Ultraviolet

  NASA/SDO and the AIA science team

• A dark mosaic of narrow frames, each containing a tiny point of light marking a planet.

  The Solar System, from Voyager 1

  Public Domain

  The Solar System Family Portrait

  NASA/JPL-Caltech

• A dark field scattered with thousands of galaxies of many colours; several appear stretched into arcs by gravitational lensing.

  Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

  Public Domain

  Webb's First Deep Field (SMACS 0723)

  NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI