New pictures of Neptune are sent back by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.


The first images of Neptune from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are the eighth planet's best views

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from the Sun's rings in more than 30 years, according to the space agency on Thursday.

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According to a NASA news release, the new photographs provide a "crisp" look of the ice giant planet's rings.

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Since NASA's Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Neptune in 1989,

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several of those rings have not been discovered.

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The planet's fuzzier dust bands are also visible on the Webb.

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Moreover, seven of the 14 known moons of Neptune were photographed by the Webb telescope.

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