The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has become synonymous with jaw-dropping, full-color photos of some of the most compelling cosmic landscapes in the universe. But, as new photos of Saturn reveal, even JWST's unprocessed black-and-white images are stunning.
JWST captured the new images of the ringed planet between June 24 and 25 as part of a project led by Leigh Fletcher, an astronomer at the University of Leicester in the U.K., to study the planet's rings, moons and atmospheric composition. The pictures recently appeared on the telescope's unofficial live feed. However, they don't look like the banded gold orb you might imagine — at least, not yet.
