After Almost 8 Years, Saturn Is Entering Autumn — New Webb Telescope Images Reveal Its Foliage

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured images of Saturn ’s late summer slowly fading into fall.

It turns out that the northern hemisphere is slowly cooling, and the global air circulation that drives the weather is preparing to reverse directions.

Like Earth , Saturn spins on a slightly tilted axis (ours is off-kilter by about 23.5 degrees , while Saturn 's is tilted about 26.7 degrees ).

JWST images are probably the best look at Saturn we’re going to get for the foreseeable future.

There’s already more space and more fascinating (and sometimes deeply weird) things happening out there than the telescope can observe.

Photographing planets is also very difficult for the telescope to capture.