ByJamie Carter
ByJamie Carter,
Senior Contributor.
In a landmark achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its first new exoplanet. About the same mass as Saturn, it was found in a star system about 111 light-years distant. It's the lightest planet even directly imaged and could make it easier for astronomers to find Earth-like planets in other star systems.
Image of the disk around the star TWA 7 recorded using ESO’s Very Large Telescope’s SPHERE ... More
