What did the James Webb space telescope find on titan?
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and second largest in the solar system. It is the only moon to have a dense atmosphere. And it has lakes, rivers and seas of liquid methane. Titan is suspected to have storms of methane as well. To study its lower atmosphere, an international community of planetary scientists used the James Webb Telescope and Keck Telescope to study this moon.
The James Webb telescope was deployed by NASA and other space agencies to help the field of astronomy to to understand every phase of the history of the universe after the big bang. It is also used to study our solar system, exoplanets and evolution of earth.
Astronomy studies planets, the solar system, galaxies, stars, nebulae, comets, asteroids, black holes, quasars and meteors among many objects in the universe or cosmos. Similarly cosmology studies the birth, existence and end of the universe. astrophysics uses the laws of physics and chemistry to investigate the cosmos and how we fit into it.
Our solar system consists of the planets mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune. Beyond the planets in our solar system there are dwarf planets like pluto, ceres, eris, humea, makemake. The solar system also has comets, asteroid belt, kuiper belt, multiple moons or natural satellites.
Images NASA, ESA, CSA, W.M. Keck Observatory, A. Pagan (STScI), JWST Titan GTO Team.
