Sunday, January 15 2023 – 07:00 WIB
LIVE Techno – Since launching in December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has broken records. The telescope recently discovered its first planet with an estimated diameter that is 99 percent that of Earth.
Observations from Transiting Exoplanet NASA’s Satellite Survey (TESS) indicates that the planet is there. Images from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) aboard the JWST have later confirmed this.
Despite the similarity in size, this planet is considered much hotter than Earth orbiting a red dwarf star close enough to complete an orbit in just two days.
The newly discovered object is located 41 light years away in the constellation Octans, and is named LHS 475 b. Like other exoplanets, exoplanets are identified by looking at the shadows they cast as they pass in front of their star.
Processed from various sources, on Sunday January 15 2023, in addition to planets the size of Earth, records that JWST has found include:
Galaxy Spiral
NGC 7496 JWST Capture Results
In May 2022, the telescope captured an image of the Phantom Galaxy, which is nearly a million miles away from our planet instrument JWST’s mid-infrared observatory (MIRI). This image highlights a dust lane in the galaxy, known as NGC 628 or Messier 74.
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The second image is of NGC 7496, located just 24 million light years away, also known as a barred spiral galaxy, with spiral arms extending from distinct bars that run through the galaxy’s center.
