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Scientists have spotted a strange new world.It's almost exactly the size of Earth. It's rocky. It's relatively close (41 light-years away). And, for the first time, astronomers used the most ...
WASP-96b. WASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet. Its mass is 0.48 times that of Jupiter. It is 0.0453 AU from the class G star WASP-96, which it orbits every 3.4 days. It is about 1,140 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered in 2013 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP).
Webb's First Deep Field was taken by the telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and is a composite produced from images at different wavelengths, totalling 12.5 hours of exposure time. [3] [4] SMACS 0723 is a galaxy cluster visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere , [5] and has often been examined by Hubble and other telescopes in search of ...
NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ( TESS) is a space telescope for NASA 's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission. [6] It was launched on 18 April 2018, atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle and ...
Engineers commanded the James Webb Space Telescope to unfurl its over 21-foot wide golden mirrors this week, and the crucial test succeeded. The test, shown in the image below, was the last check ...
The rocky worlds of the TRAPPIST solar system have captivated scientists.Until recently, these Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have remained largely mysterious.
LHS 475 b is a terrestrial planet orbiting the star LHS 475 which is about 40.7 light years away, in the constellation of Octans. [2] [3] It was the first extrasolar planet to be confirmed by the James Webb Space Telescope. [4] It completes an orbit every 2 days and is 99% the diameter of Earth. It is also one of the most similar-to-Earth ...
The telescope will orbit Earth’s second Lagrange point, which is nearly 1 million miles from Earth or four times farther into space than the moon. There, the satellite can be balanced by the ...