Webb telescope finds planet bigger than Jupiter outside Solar System

Webb telescope finds planet bigger than Jupiter outside Solar System

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: September 05 2022

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The James Webb Space Telescope has now captured its first direct picture of an exoplanet situated about 385 light-years away from Earth.
This exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system) is a gas giant about six to 12 times bigger than the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.
The planet is called HIP 65426 b and is about 15 to 20 million years old. It's a rather young planet when compared to Earth that is 4.5 billion-years-old.
James Webb Space Telescope was able to capture the exoplanet in four different bands of infrared light that is invisible to the human eye.
Webb was able to capture the images because this exoplanet is about 100 times farther from its central star than Earth is from the Sun.

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