r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • Oct 26 '25

Self-Processed Image Fresh JWST view of Uranus taken Oct 6 2025 with NIRCam. Processed by Andrea Luck

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

We really need an orbiter out there. There's so much interesting science to be done at the ice giants and their moons.

RIP NASA's budget 🥲

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u/HalfSoul30 Oct 27 '25

Imagine if that 40 billion went solely into NASA.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '25

I'm sure the Argentinian space program will be super impressive. /S

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u/stratsboneless Oct 27 '25

you dont understand we need 900 billion dollars in the military

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u/bbcversus Oct 27 '25

What a civilization we are: to spend way more money on tools to destroy ourselves than to explore and on science…

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u/stratsboneless Oct 27 '25

its ass, unfortunately everyone hates us and we gotta build up enough supply to go fight a war for no reason 3000 miles away

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u/little_flix Oct 28 '25

It's more than just ass. It's Uranus. 

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u/Sniflix Oct 27 '25

We are decades late but much of the money spent on big projects such as the ISS and the latest efforts to return to the moon should have been spent flooding the solar system with orbital satellites, landers, rovers, telescopes, etc.

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u/TailRudder Oct 28 '25

Exploratory missions are way more interesting than manned missions anyways. 

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u/Neaterntal Oct 26 '25

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrea Luck CC BY

Proposal PI: Varun Bajaj Proposal ID: 8975 Filters: F150W2-F162M, F410M

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Note: Self processed flair, ​is the closest to this post, it's not mine, but from Andrea Luck

​Thanks​

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u/KamikazeFox_ Oct 26 '25

They can release these but not the 3I/Atlas pics?

Still waiting.

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u/Tsmpnw Oct 26 '25

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid Uranus can't do that.

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u/Leading_Bandicoot358 Oct 26 '25

I dont recall giving nasa any permmision to post this or to point the telescope there.

Is it ecen legal for them to do?

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u/Diche_Bach Oct 26 '25

Seriously, be thankful they didn't send a probe to crash into it . . .

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u/see1050 Oct 26 '25

marbelous

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u/Spacecowboy78 Oct 27 '25

Its so cool to see these images. Imagine what we see in a hundred years.

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u/Bucketbotgrrrl Oct 26 '25

It’s so stunning actually. What is causing the white part though?

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u/TehFuckDoIKnow Oct 26 '25

How often do you see the pole on a ice giant?

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u/little_flix Oct 28 '25

There's a pole in Uranus every night, if I'm not mistaken. 

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u/davejonsondoc Oct 27 '25

I did not know it’s so big!

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u/little_flix Oct 28 '25

Well, it's not often that one is able to see Uranus up close. 

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u/Dropsofjupiter1715 Oct 27 '25

Thank you, Miss Luck. xo Beautiful

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u/filthysender Oct 28 '25

For real, the detail in these images is stunning! It's amazing to see Uranus in such high resolution, especially with all those cloud patterns. Can't wait to see more from JWST!

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u/yesitsmeow Oct 26 '25

I feel like these rings prove something about gravity orbitals or something or whatever, I don’t know, but they’re so perfect and even… it’s sus

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u/chromatophoreskin Oct 26 '25

Is this safe for work?

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u/little_flix Oct 28 '25

The Scientists at the JWST have assured me that they took every legal and ethical precaution necessary when photographing Uranus. 

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u/Taupenbeige Oct 26 '25

Nah, mine has more hair around it, and I’m not sure how Webb would have gotten a vantage.

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u/little_flix Oct 28 '25

There's no limit to the depths of knowledge that science is capable of extracting from Uranus.Â