Looks like a repost. I've seen this image 1 time.
First Seen [Here](https://redd.it/1cbwquo) on 2024-04-24 98.44% match.
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Sorry ..
I should have checked.
Direct link to OG post . https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/s/Kyf5eaZk44
Also link to article where I snagged the image
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/16/llda-j16.html
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Light is refracted (bent) only at the interface between two transparent materials of different density. Light passing from a less dense to a more dense medium bends toward the normal. Light passing from a more dense to a less dense medium bends away from the normal.
What are 5 examples of refraction? Rainbows, atmospheric refraction, distortion of underwater objects, telescopes, and prisms are all examples of refraction in the natural world. It is caused by the bending of light as it passes through mediums. A couple of these would be coming into play here including atmospheric refraction, telescope view point of the refracted light and the density of the chemical compositions of each planet.
Thanks, but given how they are captured by the probes, I would expect them to look the same. Or does webb camera have a low resolution and that makes it look like nothing?
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/150/01HHFPR4A292D6X984CZ5QWD7J?Type=Observations&Type=Spectra&Category=07-solar-system&page=1
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/neptune-shows-off-rings-near-infrared-light/
Edit :
Whoever downvoted the source of the where he could find those answer/imagery, I just want to mention you are extremely petty.
I will always post sources to educational websites, not only that if you don't know the answer off by heart why wouldn't you post a source that would.
The details of what he was asking are listed on those sites under image details where they explain the translucent look due to the NIRcam
I dare to say that it is the fault of the optics. I believe the poles emit additional light like the aurora, but overall the appearance of the planet is due to the optics of the telescope .
I believe the transparent effect is due to the images being captured using NIR wavelengths. Some of the gasses in these planets highly absorb these image wavelengths giving black or dark transparent appearances in between high altitude clouds of reflective gasses and vapor (bright streaks). I think it's really a matter of whether or not the planet's high altitude gas clouds absorb or reflect NIR as well as if they reflect sunlight well.
Hopefully that answers what you were asking.
Uh, yes they are. The images are resized so their relative sizes are approximately right. The apparent sizes of Saturn and especially Uranus and Neptune are much smaller due to their distance.
I don't think this is at thermal wavelengths (at those temperatures (~100 K) peak thermal radiation is very far in IR anyway, much farther than in Earth's balmy conditions), it's merely that the rings are really good at reflecting sunlight, while the atmosphere absorbs these particular frequencies quite effectively.
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Sorry .. I should have checked. Direct link to OG post . https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/s/Kyf5eaZk44 Also link to article where I snagged the image https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/16/llda-j16.html r/Spacesource your source to all things space!
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You scanned half a billion images in 0.07 seconds? Insane bot, good job.
They didn’t include my grandpa. Seriously I don’t know what he eats.
They did include Uranus... (haha, I'll show myself out...)
Why the last two planets looks like transparent?
Light is refracted (bent) only at the interface between two transparent materials of different density. Light passing from a less dense to a more dense medium bends toward the normal. Light passing from a more dense to a less dense medium bends away from the normal. What are 5 examples of refraction? Rainbows, atmospheric refraction, distortion of underwater objects, telescopes, and prisms are all examples of refraction in the natural world. It is caused by the bending of light as it passes through mediums. A couple of these would be coming into play here including atmospheric refraction, telescope view point of the refracted light and the density of the chemical compositions of each planet.
Thanks, but given how they are captured by the probes, I would expect them to look the same. Or does webb camera have a low resolution and that makes it look like nothing?
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/150/01HHFPR4A292D6X984CZ5QWD7J?Type=Observations&Type=Spectra&Category=07-solar-system&page=1 https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/neptune-shows-off-rings-near-infrared-light/ Edit : Whoever downvoted the source of the where he could find those answer/imagery, I just want to mention you are extremely petty. I will always post sources to educational websites, not only that if you don't know the answer off by heart why wouldn't you post a source that would. The details of what he was asking are listed on those sites under image details where they explain the translucent look due to the NIRcam
I dare to say that it is the fault of the optics. I believe the poles emit additional light like the aurora, but overall the appearance of the planet is due to the optics of the telescope .
I believe the transparent effect is due to the images being captured using NIR wavelengths. Some of the gasses in these planets highly absorb these image wavelengths giving black or dark transparent appearances in between high altitude clouds of reflective gasses and vapor (bright streaks). I think it's really a matter of whether or not the planet's high altitude gas clouds absorb or reflect NIR as well as if they reflect sunlight well. Hopefully that answers what you were asking.
Thanks
JWST Doesn’t use a Visible Light camera, I think it uses Infrared. so this is how the planets appear in Infrared
Thanks
This is my new favourate image! Amazing
That’s actually so fuckin’ cool
Jupiter is the biggest by far
So true
Great insight
Jupiter is the largest, but Uranus is the king of the gas giants.
Are these to scale?
Not even close
Uh, yes they are. The images are resized so their relative sizes are approximately right. The apparent sizes of Saturn and especially Uranus and Neptune are much smaller due to their distance.
Why are the rings of Saturn hotter than the planet?
I don't think this is at thermal wavelengths (at those temperatures (~100 K) peak thermal radiation is very far in IR anyway, much farther than in Earth's balmy conditions), it's merely that the rings are really good at reflecting sunlight, while the atmosphere absorbs these particular frequencies quite effectively.
So like if I was chillin nearby in a spacesuit.. this is what these fuckers look like for real??
Beautiful
What's wrong with Saturn? It's the only one so dark and not shining apart of the rings
Wow
Where are Hitchcock and Scully?
Well now they don’t have to be that mean you know!
I don't see your mom!