Ringed ice giant Neptune
lies near the center of this sharp
near-infrared image from the
James Webb Space Telescope
Why does Saturn appear so big?
It doesn’t — what is pictured are foreground clouds on
Earth
crossing in front of the
Moon
Messier 20,
popularly known as the Trifid Nebula,
lies about
5,000 light-years away toward the
nebula rich constellation Sagittarius
What makes this storm cloud so colorful?
First, the
cloud itself is composed of millions of tiny droplets of water and ice