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Of course Saturn brought its ring light.

On June 25, 2023, our James Webb Space Telescope made its first near-infrared observations of Saturn. The planet itself appears extremely dark at this infrared wavelength, since methane gas absorbs almost all the sunlight falling on the atmosphere. The icy rings, however, stay relatively bright, leading to Saturn’s unusual appearance in this image.

This new image of Saturn clearly shows details within the planet’s ring system, several of the planet’s moons (Dione, Enceladus, and Tethys), and even Saturn’s atmosphere in surprising and unexpected detail.

These observations from Webb are just a hint at what this observatory will add to Saturn’s story in the coming years as the science team delves deep into the data to prepare peer-reviewed results.

Download the full-resolution image, both labeled and unlabeled, from the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds

are also known as “rotor clouds” and their spiraling pattern is the effect of a cloud generating a billowing wave pattern, which is a very rare occurrence. They happen when there is a severe vertical shear between two air streams, producing the upper-level winds to blow faster than the lower-level winds. Images © WSLS 10, Dave Throup, Vivian Knezevich

Plate 17. Guide to the construction of Gothic details. 1888.

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The regular hexagon hidden in a cube unfolds to a straight line on a net of the cube.

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Agnes Denes. Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space: The Pyramid, 1976

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I knew my first tattoo had to be about math. inspired by the below proof of the Pythagorean Theorem but disguised as a rose. done at Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, NY.