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Webb Detects Complex Structures in Upper Atmosphere of Saturn


Astronomers using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a series of dark, bead-like and asymmetric star-shaped features in the ionosphere and stratosphere of Saturn.

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