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Josh Luckhurst

NASA reveals clearest image of Neptune and its rings in more than 30 years

NASA have revealed one of the clearest images of Neptune in more than 30 years thanks to its James Webb Space Telescope.

The telescope, a project which cost a reported $10 billion (£7.4 billion) to develop, showed off its first ever image of the distant planet in the new batch of images which have not been captured since the NASA's Voyager 2 flyby in 1989.

Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) images sees the ice planet in a new light, which includes bright, narrow rings around Neptune.

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