Saturn (Webb NIRCam and Hubble WFC3/UVIS)

Side-by-side views of Saturn from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (left) and Hubble Space Telescope (right) reveal the planet in infrared and visible light. Hubble highlights subtle cloud banding and color variations, while Webb’s infrared vision probes different atmospheric layers, bringing out storms, waves, and glowing ring structures in striking detail.

About the colours

These images were acquired by the NIRCam instrument on Webb and WFC3/UVIS instrument on Hubble. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to a monochromatic (grayscale) image. In this case, the assigned colors for Webb are: Blue: F164N, Cyan: F212N, Green: F430M, Red: F470N, and for Hubble are: Blue: F395N, Green: F502N, Red: F631N

About the data

These images were created with Webb and Hubble data from proposals: 9219 (M. Garcia Marin) and 17294 (A. Simon) respectively.