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This is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (programming.dev)
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[โ€“] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Titan is small, and distant, when compared to the photo in the thread.

The photo in this thread is by Cassini, which was at least a thousand of times closer. Titan is 1.2 million KM from Saturn, which Cassini was orbiting, while Earth, which JWST "orbits" is at least 1.2 billion KM from Saturn.

[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the clarification!