LOS ANGELES, September 2, 2022 (Xinhua) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first-ever immediate impression of an exoplanet, the agency mentioned Thursday.
The exoplanet in Webb’s graphic, named HIP 65426, is a fuel big, with a volume six to 12 occasions the mass of Jupiter, according to NASA.
It is 15 to 20 million a long time previous, compared to Earth’s 4.5 billion decades, in accordance to NASA.
NASA said the graphic, seen via four different gentle filters, shows how Webb’s potent infrared gaze can conveniently capture worlds outside the house the solar system, paving the way for upcoming observations that will expose extra details than ever about exoplanets.
Webb is the most significant, most potent and most elaborate area science telescope at any time constructed in the planet. It is an international method led by NASA with its two partners, the European House Agency and the Canadian Place Agency.
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