The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare
In this image, light from the star TWA 7 has been subtracted. The potential exoplanet TWA 7 b is the orange circle within the blue debris disk.
NASA, ESA, CSA, Anne-Marie Lagrange (CNRS, UGA), Mahdi Zamani (ESA / Webb)
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified a faint source of infrared light in a disk of debris surrounding a young star called...
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