NASA’s Webb Space Telescope reveals ancient surface of Pluto and other celestial bodies for the first time
The IndependentSign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies in the outer solar system. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph instrument has “confirmed this, but in unexpected ways, and in unprecedented detail,” NASA explained in a blog post on Wednesday. open image in gallery Analysis of data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped shed light on the ancient surfaces of trans-Neptunian objects like Pluto. With the data from NIRSpec – which detects near-infrared wavelengths of light and is capable of observing more than 100 bodies at once – the scientists were able to study more than 75 trans-Neptunian objects.
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