The third-largest planet in our Solar System, Neptune often appears ... Most prominent in this image is Triton, above Neptune, with bright diffraction spikes. This color is due to the highly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first image of the solar system ice ... of its view of Neptune is a bright point of light that represents the moon Triton.

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze away from the deep universe toward our home Solar System ... image is what appears to be a very bright spiky star, but is in fact Triton, Neptune ...

Webb images also show seven of Neptune’s 14 moons. The brightest is Triton, the planet’s largest moon, which scientists suspect was captured by Neptune’s gravity early in the solar system ...

Related: James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning image of Neptune's rings and moons For one, Triton is big. It's the seventh-largest moon in the solar system, and it's over 200 times bigger ...

Astronomers think Triton was perhaps an object ... precise image quality to illuminate our own solar system, with images of Mars, Jupiter and now Neptune.

Whereas most planetary moons, including all the others around Neptune, orbit with their planetary host’s rotation, Triton ... beyond the solar system, she calls the new image “an amazing ...

Triton is larger than Pluto and appears so bright because its ice layer is reflective, per the AFP. This image labels seven of Neptune's 14 ... far beyond our solar system for glimpses of the ...

Located some 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth, Neptune, the solar system’s ... dim in the image above. That’s how Neptune’s nitrogen-covered moon Triton, at top left, manages to ...