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This is Titan, Saturn's largest Moon captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

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Are those nasa colors because nasa has to filter it most of the time for it to be accurate to we what the human eye would see.
- Titan is pretty much yellow. JWST is an infrared telescope, so it doesn’t show the visible spectrum we see. So the colors mean something, but they don’t mean, “what humans would see when looking at it with their eyes.” There are many visible spectrum images of Titan from other sources, however.
  
  Mid-infrared and NIR for jwst.

I wonder if the blurriness is a resolution problem or a focus problem, since it's so close compared to what it's designed to look at.
- Shouldn't matter --- Saturn should be far enough away that it's effectively infinite.
  Here's some explanation: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/58765/how-does-the-jwst-change-focus-when-it-goes-from-looking-at-a-near-subject-to-lo

A clearer picture, for those interested:
http://annesastronomynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Titan.jpg
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From the source:
Titan is the only object other than Earth where liquid hydrocarbon lakes and seas have actually been found (by Cassini) in its polar regions – in abundance in the north polar region and at least one of approximately 20,000 km2, called Ontario Lacus, on its south pole. Just recently, there have also been long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in Titan’s “tropics” discovered.

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