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This is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (programming.dev)

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[–] rappo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

remember that JWST doesn't do visible spectrum and, regardless, it's specialized for faint distant objects. From JWST's perspective, Titan emits a lot of light. It's kind of like using a telephoto lens to take a picture of your foot.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

People in general don't understand focal length and spectrums. It's just oooh 400x zoom, fancy, let's see atoms.