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Saturn’s rings are glowing in the Webb Space Telescope’s latest cosmic shot

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn has a fresh new look thanks to NASA’s Webb Space Telescope.

The gas giant is dark in the latest photo by Webb, released Friday, but its icy rings are glowing.

Webb snapped the picture in the infrared last weekend. At this wavelength, the planet appears dark because sunlight is absorbed by methane in the atmosphere. But the icy rings remain bright.

Three of Saturn’s many moons also got caught on camera.

Scientists are thrilled with this latest shot, which captures Saturn’s atmosphere in detail. They hope to uncover new ring structures as well as

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Physicists create bizarre quantum Alice rings for the first time

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Artistic illustration of an Alice ring, which has been observed for the first time

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Physicists have peered through the proverbial looking glass, and the atoms on the other side belong to a world of opposites. For the first time, researchers have made an exotic quantum object called an Alice ring, which changes the properties of other quantum objects when they pass through it – or when they are simply viewed through it.

Quantum systems – such as collections of very cold atoms, or even our whole universe – should theoretically contain strange objects called topological defects. Some

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