# Neptune Wide Field (NIRCam)

- By: IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
- Date: 2022-09-21
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/046/01GCCVQ72QM3D8CM2MRFGZ94HB
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_Wide_Field_(NIRCam).jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/3/37/Neptune_Wide_Field_%28NIRCam%29.jpg/1920px-Neptune_Wide_Field_%28NIRCam%29.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In this image by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), a smattering of hundreds of background galaxies, varying in size and shape, appear alongside the Neptune system.

Neptune, when compared to Earth, is a big planet. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Neptune would be as big as a basketball. In most portraits, the outer planets of our solar system reflect this otherworldly size. However, Neptune appears relatively small in a wide-field view of the vast universe.

Towards the bottom left of this image, a barred spiral galaxy comes into focus. Scientists say this particular galaxy, previously unexplored in detail, may be about a billion light-years away. Spiral galaxies like this are typically dominated by young stars that appear blueish in these wavelengths.

NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.