background. kristin fisher is with us, and these pictures don t disappoint. nasa scientists are saying they re even better than what they had hoped for. they re stunning. reporter: yeah, they knew they would be good. they just did not know they would be this good. as you re looking at these new images of jupiter, the two that nasa has just released, i m sure you re thinking, that doesn t look like the jupiter i m used to seeing with red and orange and brown. the reason is because webb is not an optical telescope. it s an infrared telescope. infrared light is invisible to the human eye, and so the webb telescope has to use three filters to kind of translate that infrared light into light that you and i can see, and so what you re seeing there to kind of translate it for you, the blue at the top up there, actually in the other image, if we can just pop up that one the still of jupiter. there you go. that red at the top, those are the auroras. those are jupiter s northern lights. the
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