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Webb Captures First Direct Image of Alien Planet Carving Cosmic Rings

Summary by Sci Tech Daily
The newfound planet represents Webb’s first direct image discovery of a planet. Nearly 6,000 worlds beyond our solar system have been found so far, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have just added another. The telescope picked up a faint glow from TWA 7 b, a planet about the mass of Saturn orbiting the [...]

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The discovery of TWA 7 b, with just 0.3 times the mass of Jupiter, could reveal for the first time a "Troyal disk" of cosmic dust trapped in its orbit. The James Webb telescope has just detected the lightest planet ever directly observed: TWA 7 b, a world with Saturn-like mass orbiting the young star TWA 7, just 34 light years from Earth. The finding, published in Nature, marks a milestone in the search for exoplanets. It could reveal an unprece…

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