The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its 1st exoplanet and snapped its picture (image)
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its 1st exoplanet and snapped its picture (image)
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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its 1st exoplanet and snapped its picture (image)
The new planet TWA 7b is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.
...With an estimated mass of around 100 times that of Earth or 0.3 times the mass of Jupiter, TWA 7b is ten times lighter than any exoplanet previously directly imaged.
TWA 7b was discovered in the debris rings that surround the low-mass star CE Antilae, also known as TWA 7, located around 111 light-years from Earth.