The Ringed Planets


When I was a kid, Saturn was the ringed planet. But today, we know that all of the outer planets have rings. The James Webb Space Telescope has now imaged each of them in infrared revealing their distinctive structures, including Jupiter‘s very faint ring (located by the arrow and dashed curve). The planet images below are roughly to scale, 11:9:4:4, where Earth is 1.


Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune